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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>
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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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