Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!yale!cmcl2!rna!marc
From: marc@rna.UUCP (Marc Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Norton Advanced Utilities DT
Message-ID: <307@rna.UUCP>
Date: 23 Nov 88 07:34:04 GMT
References: <6857@venera.isi.edu>
Reply-To: marc@rna.UUCP (Marc Johnson)
Organization: Rockefeller University Neurobiology
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In article <6857@venera.isi.edu> cracraft@venera.isi.edu (Stuart Cracraft) writes:
>DT is this fancy Disk Test command from Norton. It is supposed
>to, among other things, add bad blocks to the FAT (what's that
>stand for?) with the /d command.
>

FAT stands for File Allocation Table, a map of the used clusters on your disk.

The usage of DT is (from the version 4.0 manual):

DT [d:][filespec][switches]

Switches:
/B	Perform both disk and file test
/Cn	Mark cluster n as bad
/Cn-	Mark cluster n as good
/D	Test the entire disk for damage (i.e., not just files)
/F	Test all files on the disk for damage (i.e., only used clusters)
/LOG	Format output message to be suitable for printing or logging to a file
/M	Move questionable clusters to a safe location, and mark them as bad
/S	Test files in subdirectories also (only meaningful when a filespec is
	given).

With no switches, DT just examines and reports.

>If true, does it handle multiple partitions?
>
>	Stuart

As indicated above, giving a disk name will cause DT to examine that disk.
Normally, it default to the current disk.  So,

C> dt

will examine the current disk (C: in this case), and,

C> dt d:

will examine drive D:.

marc

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