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From: feg@clyde.ATT.COM (Forrest Gehrke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Bad Zero Sector
Message-ID: <25926@clyde.ATT.COM>
Date: 5 May 88 14:13:05 GMT
References: <25870@clyde.ATT.COM>
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Whippany NJ
Lines: 18
Keywords: What to do?
Summary: Oops! Sorry---"relative CLUSTER number 2"

In article <25870@clyde.ATT.COM>, feg@moss.ATT.COM writes:
> My HD shows a flaky sector where the first hidden file lives 
> and although I can get rid of the problem with a low level
> format, the fix is only temporary--it reappears after a few
> weeks.
> 
> Attempts to mark the sector bad and then to move the hidden
> files over so that they start at a higher relative sector
> number than the normal number 2 result in a disk which can
> be accessed but will not boot.

I should have called this CLUSTER #2 instead of sector #2.

Excuse the mixup.



Forrest Gehrke