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From: dillenbu@uicbert.eecs.uic.edu
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Subject: Re: Hard Drive Woes: HELP!
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Date: 22 Nov 89 10:38:56 GMT
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/* Written  3:54 pm  Nov 19, 1989 by zimm@portia.Stanford.EDU in uicbert.eecs.uic.edu:comp.sys.atari.st */
/* ---------- "Hard Drive Woes: HELP!" ---------- */

> a) Should I reformat the partition and hope there are no real hardware
> problems with the drive itself? As far as I can tell, the ICD utilities
> won't allow one to reformat a single partition: how does one accomplish
> this? (I DON'T WANT TO REFORMAT THE WHOLE DRIVE!!)

  You can Zero the directories of a single hard drive partition with
a program called HDUTIL.PRG available from the ICD customer support BBS.
Also, a program called DLII comes in handy for repairing corrupted
disks (floppy or hard drive).  DLII is also available at the ICD BBS.

> b) Is there any way of determining which sectors are permanently corrupted,
> so that when I reformat the partition I can tell the drive to ignore them?

  When you format the hard drive with the ICD utilities, it will tell you
which sectors are bad and will automatically skip them.  The next time you format your drive, you can tell the format program where you discovered bad sectors
the last time you formatted it.  When you purchased your HD, a list of bad
sectors should have been included with it. 

  -= John Dillenburg =-
 dillenbu@uicbert.eecs.uic.edu