Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ncar!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!starsoft!david From: david@starsoft.UUCP (Dave Lowrey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: HELP. Need diskette torture tester for finding bad disks. Message-ID: <18795348.ARN2560@starsoft.UUCP> Date: 5 Jan 91 14:46:00 GMT References: Reply-To: david@starsoft.UUCP Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga Distribution: comp Organization: Starbound Software Group Lines: 27 Expires: Keywords: In article , Jordan K. Hubbard writes: > Yes, like most folks, I'm occasionally tempted by lower cost disk > deals and have about 5 boxes of off-brand specials. For the most part, > I've had good luck, but have occasionally have been bitten rather > badly. The AmigaDOS format command seems to be virtually useless for > finding bad sectors (I'd be very interested to know what it means when > it says "verifying") and I've been racking my fish archive looking for > something that REALLY formats and verifies a disk. Sure, disks can go > bad at any time, but I'd like to at least weed out the initially bad ones > and/or be able to verify whether or not a disk has truly "gone bad" before > I give it the old heave-ho. > If you want something for free, try DiskSalv. While it doesn't format (you will have to use the DOS Format cmd for that), it will read every block on the disk. QuarteBack Tools also has a function to check a disk's blocks (and attempt to recover any files that contain them, if you want). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- These words be mine. The company doesn't care, because I am the company! :-) Dave Lowrey | david@starsoft or {uhnix1,lobster}!starsoft!david Starbound Software Group | Houston, TX | "Dare to be stupid!" -- Weird Al Yankovic