Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!gatech!bloom-beacon!think!ames!oliveb!sun!pepper!cmcmanis From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Hard sector errors Message-ID: <23639@sun.uucp> Date: Thu, 16-Jul-87 13:18:53 EDT Article-I.D.: sun.23639 Posted: Thu Jul 16 13:18:53 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 18-Jul-87 08:07:41 EDT References: <3249@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> Sender: news@sun.uucp Reply-To: cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View Lines: 21 In article <3249@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> (Glenn M. Lewis) writes: > How can I fix this disk so that I can re-use it? Should I find a strong >magnetic field to scramble it, or something? > -- Glenn Lewis First, make sure you aren't using Single Sided disks, every now and then there will be a physical defect in the media on the 'bottom' and that can cause hard failures, as can flaking if the oxide. If they are regular DS/DD disks then the easiest way to 'scramble' them is with a bulk eraser. You can get them at Radio Shack but professional recording supplies dealers have better ones. Put your disk(s) under the bulk eraser, switch it on, and _slowly_ pull it away from the disk(s) while moving in larger and larger circles. Now do it again to be sure. Voila completely unformatted disks. Be vary careful not to do this near any other magnetic media. (I go out into the garage). You can also degauss TV's this way too. --Chuck McManis uucp: {anywhere}!sun!cmcmanis BIX: cmcmanis ARPAnet: cmcmanis@sun.com These opinions are my own and no one elses, but you knew that didn't you.