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- From: Ravi Konchigeri <mongoose@cardinal.stanford.edu>
- Subject: Bad Sector
- Message-ID: <1992Nov8.205527.29321@leland.Stanford.EDU>
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- My computer was sitting idle today when Autodoubler popped up this nice
- little dialog box. It said something like, "Autodoubler has caught an
- error or type -20999 ... The file is good but your hard disk might be
- bad. Please contact tech support." I looked up -20999 in the
- SystemErrors DA and couldn't find it. Does anyone know what this error
- is? When I ran Silverlining it found a bad sector. Is there any way I
- can map out the sector without re-formatting? If not, what's the best
- way to get around this. Also, when I try booting any of the files that
- were in the folder that Autodoubler caught the problem in, Finder gives
- me a "Not enough memory" message when there's clearly enough memory.
- Thanx in advance.
-
-
- "When common sense breaks down you invoke quantum mechanics." - Prof.
- R.F.W. Pease.
-
- Ravi Konchigeri.
- mongoose@cardinal.stanford.edu
-