Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!uflorida!gatech!mcnc!ecsgate!ecsvax!mvolo From: mvolo@uncecs.edu (Michael R. Volow) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps Subject: Re: SPINRITE Summary: Spinrite O.K. most of the time..... Keywords: Does it really work? Message-ID: <1990Nov20.005823.4201@uncecs.edu> Date: 20 Nov 90 00:58:23 GMT References: <666@seer.UUCP> <1990Nov18.201156.16054@rti.rti.org> Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service Lines: 13 I am generally a satisfied user of Spinrite. But on one ST225, Spinrite "fixed" bad sectors in track 0, after which the HD became unbootable. I tried creating a minipartition containing that track, and making the rest of the disk the bootable partition; but it didn't work. Only when I re-low-level formatted along with the original bad track map (which did, by the way, have bad areas in track 0, but probably not the boot area) did the HD again become bootable. I don't remember anyway iin Spinrite to reclaim some bad sectors but not others. -- Michael Volow, Psychiatry, Durham VA Med Center, Durham NC 27712 919 286 0411 Ext 6933 mvolo@ecsvax.edu