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From: CHEN@TAUNIVM.BITNET ("Chen S. Zucker")
Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc
Subject: Bad files on a hard disk
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Date: 22 Dec 88 07:34:30 GMT
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I am using a 30 Megabyte HD. I've been using this disk for about a year
now. Suddenly I encountered boot failures, some files are not loading, etc.

I checked the disk with Norton's DT.exe, and found that over 100 clusters
were bad; most of them had some files on them (with the message: DANGER NOW).

Is anyone familiar with a problem on 30 MB hard disks?
How does it happen, that all of a sudden files get disrupted, sectors, clusters
etc. become bad?
What should be the remedy? Do I have to reformat my hard disk?

I am using an ordinary PC clone, with 640 KB of memory, DOS ver. 3.20.

-Chen Zucker