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From: bturner@hpcvlx.HP.COM (Bill Turner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Norton Utilities and the puzzle of the sick SEAGATE
Message-ID: <101000035@hpcvlx.HP.COM>
Date: 23 Jan 89 18:20:12 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA
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I too had a Seagate 20MB disk that was slowly rotting away on me (kept getting
new bad sector errors).  I eventually (as soon as I could!) got another disk,
copied the data from the Seagate, then, for grins and giggles, ran a low-level
format on the Seagate.  Seemed to be fine, but I was a bit paranoid, and the
disk isn't in use currently.

This is a system I use at work, and I usually leave the disk powered up.  I
don't think it was a thermal problem, though, as I left the system off overnight
to check and it still had problems the next day.

--Bill Turner