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From: cgh018@tijc02.UUCP (Calvin Hayden    )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Problem with the Norton Disk Doctor
Message-ID: <455@tijc02.UUCP>
Date: 24 Apr 89 17:19:46 GMT
References: <282.2450F9A2@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>
Organization: Texas Instr., Johnson City TN
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You write:
> Rather recently, I decided to stop running MINIX on my hard disk and format
> that partition for DOS.  Because I didn't want to have to back up and
> then restore the contents of my other partition, which would have taken
.
.
.
> I'm getting desperate here.  I usually run NDD's full surface check
> every week, to make sure the disk is okay, and I can't do that now.
> I haven't been able to check drive D: at all, and that concerns me:
> It has a bad cluster on it, and I'd like to lock it out before it starts
> to corrupt files.
...

Depending on the version of Norton you're running, there is a problem
with the utilities.  As I remember, 4.5 had problems when used with
dos and *ix type file systems.  I'm not sure what the problem was, but I
seem to remember from a posted note that it dealt with the trashing
of partitions.  I think
that a letter was to be sent to registered users informing them of 
problem, with info on what to do.  This may or may not be related to 
what you've seen, but sounds like it might be if you're using 4.5.

Cal