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From: woan@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Ronald S. Woan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: low-level format
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Date: Fri, 30-Oct-87 03:33:44 EST
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Posted: Fri Oct 30 03:33:44 1987
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Summary: need help with faulty drive or controller

My hard disk recently seems to have blown-up or something. Overnight
it seems to have developed great difficulty reading/writing. I tried
using DOS format to try to map out bad sectors but to no avail. Mysterious
read/write errors periodically occur with no warning all over the disk.

I am told by some that I may be able to solve my problems with a low-level
reformat of the hard-disk, but I do not have the software to do so. If anyone
happens to have a PD formatter, please let me know... By the way the hard disk
is a trashy CMI 20 meg. in one of those first 2000 AT's to roll off the assembly
line of IBM... 

Thanks much...

					Ronald S. Woan
					woan@cory.berkeley.edu

P.S. If anyone could hazzard a guess of how the
problem started (virtually overnight), let me know.
So far guesses include lightening, power outage at 
night, and trojan programs, along with standard 
disk failure...