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From: sm196103@seas.gwu.edu (Scott Cherkofsky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Bad Sectors on diskettes?
Keywords: application to fix bad sectors other than disk first aid?
Message-ID: <2702@sparko.gwu.edu>
Date: 11 Feb 91 13:40:09 GMT
Reply-To: sm196103@seas.gwu.edu (Scott Cherkofsky)
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I have been having problems lately with high density disks formatting.  They
are coming out with initialization failed errors.  The reason I reformatted
them in the first place was to combat the copy error - file skipped, 
read/write error.  

I am looking for an application that will fix these diskettes.  I have tried 
using disk first aid but get the error - disk not hfs.  That is stupid, and
tells me that somewhere there is a bad sector and the Mac does know what to 
do about it.

WHY CAN'T THE MAC TREAT BAD SECTORS LIKE OTHER COMPUTERS - LABEL IT AND
DON'T USE IT!

sorry bout that, but this has happened to lots of my EXPENSIVE HD disks.

Scott

P.S.  it is NOT my drive.

Thanx for your help. 















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Scott Cherkofsky			"The experience of going through
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