Path: utzoo!censor!geac!jtsv16!blister!micasa!jzl
From: jzl@micasa.UUCP (Jack Z. Lupic)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: FDISK.EXE disaster
Message-ID: <LJR4X1w163w@micasa.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 91 18:38:56 EST
References: <9467.27b0b641@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu>

vancleef@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu writes:

> I'm reconfiguring my hard disk, ok, i have everything i want
> saved on floppies. So I ran HDWIPE. Fine. Next I wanted to
> partition the disk so I could format it, so I run
> 
> FDISK
> 
> But, my machine tells me that a BAD SECTOR is in FDISK!!!! 
> (AN evil cosmic ray must had nabbed it or something)
> I have NO WAY now of partitioning my harddisk. I am using
> MSDOS 4.011. Can anyone out there uuencode a copy of
> FDISK.EXE which works and email it to me? I dont know what else
> I can possibly do.
> 
> 
> -Garrett

The answer to that one is easy.  Just buy a legitimate copy of MSDOS
and you'll get FDISK with it :-)

Once you have a copy of the DOS system disk, erase your FDISK.EXE and
then copy FDISK.EXE from your system disk <floppy> to C:\DOS or wherever
you keep your DOS files.  Hopefully the new FDISK.EXE won't get copied
over the same bad sectors.

The other lesson is: BACKUP before you wipe anything out or do anything
that will destroy your valuable data.

-Jack-