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From: amlovell@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Anthony M Lovell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Identifying Bad HD sectors.. How?
Message-ID: <3593@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 6 Sep 88 00:52:31 GMT
Organization: Princeton University, NJ
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I have a Flashcard 49, a disk on a card.  I have been quite pleased with
it except for some problems I believe are attributable to bad sectors
that were not identified as such at the time it was formatted.

Can anyone tell me if there is a program other than format (or fdisk..
whicever one does it) that checks a disk for bad sectors (not just
reports those already LABELLED as bad but checks for new ones, too)
withOUT formatting the disk?
  Until I can do this, I have a slowly growing number of files I have
had to avoid using as they send DOS to Abort , Retry, Ignore.

thanks.

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