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From: scott@csusac.csus.edu (L. Scott Emmons)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Help - Track 0 bad on Hard Disk
Keywords: Harddisk track0 bad
Message-ID: <1989Nov11.164057.16254@csusac.csus.edu>
Date: 11 Nov 89 16:40:57 GMT
References: <905@ac.dal.ca>
Reply-To: scott@csusac.UUCP (L. Scott Emmons)
Organization: California State University, Sacramento
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In article <905@ac.dal.ca> neil@ac.dal.ca writes:
>       Awhile ago (about 2 months) I read something about 
>formatting a hard disk with track 0 failure. I don't remember the 
>details of the solution. Could someone please aid a poor failing 
>hard disk and Email me this trick.

I just did this about a month ago on a Tallgrass Technologies Drive system with
a bad cluster 0 (NOTE: The problem I worked with was CLUSTER, not TRACK...don't
know if the same can be done for track, but it may be possible.)
All I had to do was tell the disk partitioning program that partition 0 started
at cluster 1 instead of cluster 0.  I believe this would also be possible for
a bad track, just calculate the number of clusters per track and start
partition 0 here.

Anyone have a better solution?

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			L. Scott Emmons
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