Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!agate!helios.ee.lbl.gov!ncis.tis.llnl.gov!blackbird!jlong From: jlong@blackbird.afit.af.mil (Jeffrey K. Long) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: How to find bad sectors on Hard Disk? Message-ID: <1288@blackbird.afit.af.mil> Date: 14 Aug 89 20:27:24 GMT References: <1287@blackbird.afit.af.mil> Reply-To: jlong@blackbird.afit.af.mil (Jeffrey K. Long) Distribution: na Organization: Air Force Institute of Technology; WPAFB, OH Lines: 16 I have a 30 Meg hard disk that I home-brewed about a year ago. Anyway, at the time I got the drive mech. I lost the list of bad sectors which was taped to it. I use ICD formatting utilities on the disk, but they never flag any defective sectors. I seem to have a recurring problem whenever I get my disk just so full, that I feel like it must be a defective sector that is screwing up my programs whenever I try to load them. Does anyone know of a program that does a good job of flagging bad sectors on a hard drive? Any suggestions? I have reformatted several times but the problem always seems to pop up latter! Help! ========================================================================= | Jeff Long jlong@blackbird.afit.af.mil (ARPA net) | | | | humble (and getting humbler by the day) graduate student; | | The Air Force Institute of Technology (what a great way of life??) | =========================================================================