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From: Scott_Phillips@f110.n771.z3.fidonet.gen.nz (Scott Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Hard disk problem
Message-ID: <9011100908.AA3189@f170.n771.z3.fidonet.gen.nz>
Date: 7 Nov 90 14:58:00 GMT
Reply-To: Scott_Phillips@f605.n770.z3.fidonet.gen.nz (Scott Phillips)
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Comment-To: Christophe_N._Christoff@f605.n770.z3.fidonet.gen.nz (Christophe N. Christoff)

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 >I have PC/AT compatible machine with Seagate hard disk paritioned
 >into drive C and drive D.  I ran Norton speed disk for both drives
 >and I was successful on drive C, and got message saying something
 >like "incomplete....., run Norton Disk Doctor".  Then, I ran
 >Norton Disk Doctor on drive D.   What happened was NDD was trying to
 >read forever, and never return the control back to DOS.  I had to
 >turn off the machine after very very long time.  After I turned on
 >the machine again, drive D was bad.  I cannot use it, and I cannot
 >even get a directory on the drive D.

I've had the same problem with NDD scanning the hard drive and never 
seeming to stop.  I left it going for about 10-15 minutes and finally 
it came up with "check CMOS, invalid drive number" (which is silly as 
it was on an XT, not AT).  I'm not sure if NDD is such a good program 
if it damages disks!!! Although I've retreived a few buggered floppies 
with it.


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