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From: sandy@uhmanoa.UUCP (Sandy Phipps)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: bad sector maintenance
Message-ID: <316@uhmanoa.UUCP>
Date: 7 Dec 87 07:55:51 GMT
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I would like to get information about programs that allow you to
verify hard disks (RLL type - as this is what I have), and when
the program encounters a bad sector, it should be able to mark the
sector as bad.

I was recently doing a "Fastback" backup and encounted a

General Failure on Disk Drive C:
Ignore, Retry, Abort?

I located the sectors, but can't mark them bad.  Was able to over-
come the problem temporarily by making a new copy of the file that
was on the sectors and DOS put it somewhere else.

Any help would be appreciated.

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