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From: svirsky@ttidca.TTI.COM (William Svirsky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Hard disk problem
Message-ID: <3082@ttidca.TTI.COM>
Date: 23 Aug 88 23:21:15 GMT
References: <20173@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Reply-To: svirsky@tab.tti.com (William Svirsky)
Organization: Citicorp/TTI, Santa Monica
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In article <20173@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> msriram@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (M.G. SriRam) writes:
>The technical person at the place where i bought the hard disk told me
>that there was nothing wrong with the hardware, and that doing a
>low-level format on the disk would fix the problem. he also said that
>such a format should be done as a routine every so often, eg every 9 -
>12 months. however, i am not fully convinced about this.  what do you
>think? does it make sense?

This is the theory behind Spin Rite.  See the article Re: Disk Technician
for more info.
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