Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!gatech!ncar!noao!mcdsun!mcdchg!clyde!feg 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