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From: ogilvie@klipper.cs.vu.nl (Ogilvie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Identifying Bad HD sectors.. How?
Summary: Use Norton's DiskTest
Message-ID: <1923@botter.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 11 Sep 88 10:55:48 GMT
References: <3593@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
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In article <3593@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> amlovell@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Anthony M Lovell) writes:
>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?

Norton 's DiskTest reads all sectors to see if they are readable. If a
sector cannot be read, you are given the option to mark the corresponding
cluster as bad. For files Norton will allocate a new cluster and will copy the
sectors to the new cluster. Off course the data in the damaged sector
cannot be copied (mostly) and that will have to be reconstructed.