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From: arritt@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Disk Technician (was re: dead HD post-mortem...
Message-ID: <22251.25db1a98@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Date: 16 Feb 90 03:09:43 GMT
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Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
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In article <50017@microsoft.UUCP>, clayj@microsoft.UUCP (Clay JACKSON) writes:
> I had an 84Mb disk "die" horribly in a power surge (it was my personal
> machine, so getting it replaced was a "last resort").  I used Disk 
> Technician Advanced, by Prime Solutions, and after a few weeks or repeatedly
> running it overnight (the manual has a bunch of suggestions on how
> to recover from such things), it found and locked out all of the bad
> spots caused by the surge (I assume that the head contacted the media in
> a couple of spots).

I've also had very good luck with Disk Technician (Pro, not Advanced,
but they're functionally near-identical).  The only problem is that it
seems to be too conservative.  Repeatedly running the "total media" test
locks out more and more sectors; it's beginning to look like it would 
eventually mark the whole disk bad if run enough times.  The "track
integrity" and "hyperspeed" tests do not seem to behave in this way.
(This is a minor gripe, considering DTP saved me $300 by reviving my
old hard disk, which had been comatose for two years.)

Has anyone else had similar experiences with the Disk Technician products?
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Ray Arritt                        | 
Dept. of Physics and Astronomy    |
Univ. of Kansas                   |
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