Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seas.gwu.edu!sc155113
From: sc155113@seas.gwu.edu (Timur Tabi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Disk Technician Plus
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Date: 10 Apr 90 16:48:54 GMT
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Organization: The George Washington University, Washington D.C.
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I have an original IBM XT, and I recently ran Prime Solution's Disk
Technician Plus on the 10MB hard drive.  It ran for seven hours and found
absolutely no errors.  Nothing.  Nada.  Zero.  According to DT, it's
a perfect drive.

I've never run DT or anything else like it before.  The drive is about
five years old.  I dropped the system twice, which caused it to crash, 
although a low-level format fixed it.  On top of that, the computer is
in a room that doesn't have central heating, so during the winter, we
have to start up the stove to heat the room.  This means that the computer
can switch from 30 degrees to 70 degrees back to 30 again in 24 hours, for
several weeks.

In other words, my hard drive should be shot to hell by now, but instead
it's perfect.  Can anyone explain this????  Is my hard drive enchanted?
Is DT blind to the errors?  What's going on?