Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!udel!haven!mimsy!mojo!russotto From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: Re: Mapping HD Bad Blocks Message-ID: <1991Apr11.214222.3589@eng.umd.edu> Date: 11 Apr 91 21:42:22 GMT References: Sender: news@eng.umd.edu (C-News) Distribution: comp Organization: College of Engineering, Maryversity of Uniland, College Park Lines: 22 In article steveh@tasman.cc.utas.edu.au (Steven Howell) writes: > > > > Hi. I have a few questions concerning bad block and track/sector >re-allocation. I have a few drives that have sector 0 totally wiped out. >What i wanted to do was totally re-allocate track 0 else where. > >I tried silverlining, LoDOWN, MicroNET, SUM, SUM II, Norton,and DPI. > >But all failed to re-allocate the track. It is a 145Meg Hard disk >with a total of a couple of bad sectors. It succesfully R/W to the rest >of this disk, but fails to boot and mount. > >Is there any solution to this problem. How can such a minor fault within say >a 32 memory space write off 140mb disk. Is there a program powerful enough >to actually analize this disk without crashing. A bad track 0 usually means the drive is useless. -- Matthew T. Russotto russotto@eng.umd.edu russotto@wam.umd.edu .sig under construction, like the rest of this campus.