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From: dick@slvblc.UUCP (Dick Flanagan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: HD bad sectors
Message-ID: <1176@slvblc.UUCP>
Date: 17 Mar 88 23:56:46 GMT
References: <494@cunixc.columbia.edu>
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Summary: Try Norton or Mace Utilities
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In article <494@cunixc.columbia.edu> nwc@cunixc.columbia.edu (Nick Christopher) writes:
> I need some help with my hard disk, it has one bad sector which at present I
> have a file called BAD.SEC on top of so it is not too big a threat.  However I
> can not optimize (etc.) the disk with the bad sector.   
> 
> Is there any way I can simply mark the sector as bad?  Are there any utilities
> that could help with that?

Two possibilities come to mind.

One of the Norton 4.0 utilities can mark individual sectors as bad.

When the Mace utilities optimize a disk, they do not relocate files that
have the System attribute set.  You could use one of the attribute-tweaking
utilities to set your file's System attribute, and Mace would then optimize
around it.

You can't go wrong with either of these packages--Norton, especially, did
a good job with his 4.x collection.

Dick

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