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From: greg@noel.CTS.COM (J. Gregory Noel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: How do I analyze/fix damage from read/write error on hard disk?
Message-ID: <1003.AA1003@noel>
Date: 30 Dec 89 04:38:08 GMT
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Oops.  I was just compiling something, and suddenly I get a requestor that
says I have a read/write error on my hard disk.  After some exploration, it
seems that the error(s?) are limited to one directory (maybe two?) on the
disk (the directory containing my Aztec C includes).  Is there some sort of
utility that will allow me to track down just which sectors have gone bad?
And possibly do some minor surgery on the disk to recover whatever is possible?
I'm afraid to try anything like DiskDoctor or DiskSalv without knowing what
the bad sector is.....

The disk has been perfect until this point; the Aztec compiler has been
installed for several months without changes, so I'm surprised that an error
would occur spontainously this way -- usually there's a little warning when
a sector is going bad.

Tks,
-- 
J. Gregory Noel, UNIX Guru         greg@noel.cts.com  or  greg@noel.uucp