Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!Xorg From: Xorg@cup.portal.com (Peter Ted Szymonik) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: How to find bad sectors on Hard Disk? Message-ID: <21422@cup.portal.com> Date: 19 Aug 89 03:32:14 GMT References: <1287@blackbird.afit.af.mil> <1288@blackbird.afit.af.mil> Distribution: na Organization: The Portal System (TM) Lines: 11 This may be a weird way to find bad sectors, but MichTron's Tune-Up program can show a box will shaded areas showing used sectors, if you have bad sectors you will get 'spots' in this pict after you format the partition! I used this to find a nasty scratch on my hard drive surface caused by a crashed head - looked like this: .. ... .. .... (etc)