Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!me!yap
From: yap@me.utoronto.ca (Davin Yap)
Subject: Re: Help - Track 0 bad on Hard Disk
Message-ID: <89Nov11.135224est.19369@me.utoronto.ca>
Organization: University of Toronto Mechanical Engineering
References: <905@ac.dal.ca> <340015@hpsgpa.HP.COM> <44@qmsseq.imagen.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 89 13:52:18 EST

In article <44@qmsseq.imagen.com> pipkins@qmsseq.UUCP (Jeff Pipkins) writes:
>In article <340015@hpsgpa.HP.COM> plim@hpsgpa.HP.COM (Peter Lim) 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.
>>> 
>>
>>Are you sure this can be done ? If so, PLEASE let me into the trick
>>too ! Although I am not having such problem at the moment. Never
>>know it will become handy.    I thought it can't be done.

Perhaps you could run FDISK and make c: all of 1 track in size (however
many clusters that might be - in my case 17).  Then make a d: partition
the size of the rest of the disk, make this the active dos partition.  Of
course I could be full of it, since I believe that the partition
information is stored in the first (couple?) of sectors of track 0.