Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!ihlpa!pcnews From: pcnews@ihlpa.ATT.COM (45261-Thayalan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: bad sector maintenance Summary: MS-DOS "RECOVER" command Message-ID: <6511@ihlpa.ATT.COM> Date: 11 Dec 87 20:25:39 GMT References: <316@uhmanoa.UUCP> Distribution: na Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois Lines: 18 In article <316@uhmanoa.UUCP>, sandy@uhmanoa.UUCP (Sandy Phipps) writes: > 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...... You should be able to this using the "recover" command in MS-DOS. Using this command you can recover a file that was located on a bad sector, moreover, the bad sector will be marked so that in the future DOS will not allocate that sector to any file ( I guess the that this cluster is marked bad in the FAT). I have not used FASTBACK, however, most backup program will tell you which file it was backingup when this error occured (reading bad sector). So you can do "recover" on that file. Please refer to your msdos command manual to get more info on this command, before you actually use it. (for instance you may not want to do a "recover" on the whole drive). K. Thayalan