Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!apple!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!maverick.ksu.ksu.edu!hoss!fergvax!shores From: shores@fergvax.unl.edu (Shores) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Disks: marking bad sectors? Message-ID: Date: 11 Jan 91 09:14:03 GMT References: <1990Dec31.181853.28607@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> <8103@hub.ucsb.edu> <1991Jan11.122121.3901@csc.anu.edu.au> <1991Jan11.053022.17872@wolves.uucp> Sender: news@hoss.unl.edu (Network News Administer) Organization: University of Nebraska - Lincoln Lines: 20 For floppy disks, EVERYONE should immediately go out and find an obscure INIT called simply, BAD Init. My copy came with no documentation, but it installs a patch to the formatting code. If the regular format won't work, you'll be asked to re-insert the disk to try and format the disk using BAD. I think it marks the bad sectors by fooling the Desktop into thinking there are junk files located on the bad sectors, so your good files won't be put on those bad areas. I wish I could find out who wrote that thing, I would gladly mail the programmer some of the money I've saved! There is also a commercial program called Sector Collector which does the same thing, only it might work on hard disks as well. MacTools Deluxe supposedly can do the same, but from my experience, the only thing that piece of shit program does as advertised is defragment. % t-o-m s-h-o-r-e-s "It's fallen and I can't get it up" --That old lady's husband