Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!europa.cis.ohio-state.edu!clark-j From: clark-j@europa.cis.ohio-state.edu (james clark) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Norton Advanced Utilities DT Message-ID: <28695@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 30 Nov 88 06:09:34 GMT References: <6857@venera.isi.edu> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Organization: The Ohio State University Dept of Computer and Information Science Lines: 17 In article <6857@venera.isi.edu> cracraft@venera.isi.edu (Stuart Cracraft) writes: >DT is this fancy Disk Test command from Norton. It is supposed >to, among other things, add bad blocks to the FAT (what's that >stand for?) with the /d command. > >If true, does it handle multiple partitions? > > Stuart FAT => File Allocation Table; is used to maintain a table of the status of all sectors. No, not across partitions because each partition (assuming all DOS) will have it's own FAT. To clean house with DT supply the drive letter. (obvious hint try C>DT ?) Disclaimer: Don't ask me, I'm just a student.