Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!rutgers!att!holin!doc
From: doc@holin.ATT.COM (David Mundhenk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Cause/cure of bad sectors??
Summary: Try reformat or SpinRite
Keywords: hard disk bad sectors
Message-ID: <237@holin.ATT.COM>
Date: 21 Nov 88 18:10:21 GMT
References: <4523@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Organization: AT&T DSG Holmdel NJ USA
Lines: 29

In article <4523@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>, greg@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Gregory Nowak) writes:
> 
> A friend of mine has a Seagate 20MB hard disk in a Leading Edge clone.
> She has been having some problems with data on the disk ......
> .....
> ignoring it actively bad for the disk, or is this simply a result of
> wear and tear on the disk that one might as well put up with if one is
> making backups?

I am not an expert on hard drives, but since you mention that backups
have been done, the first thing I would try is to re-do the low level
format, partitioning and DOS format, then re-load everything. You might
want to try Norton Utilities to see if it finds any problems. Another
possibility is a new software product called "SpinRite", which will 
optimize your interleave and re-low level format the drive without
having to restore everything.
(I am in no way affiliated with any marketers of the above software)



-Dave                "Credo quia absurdum"
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