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Date:	Sat, 25 Oct 2003 17:01:53 PDT7
From:	Steve Carter <scarter@vcnet.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: Precautionary Low-Level

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On 10/25/03, Peter Skye wrote, in part:
>....
>This checks whether the drive is okay or not, but lurkers should be
>aware that if you then change from FAT to something else (such as HPFS)
>the sector remapping done by SpinRite is *lost*. Thus, SpinRite for
>integrity checking is fine, but not for fixing.
>
>I don't know how HPFS handles (remaps?) "bad" sectors. The machine I'm
>on right now has an old 2 GB drive for its Master Primary and I had to
>"manually" determine how to partition HPFS around a block of bad sectors
>that worked fine as FAT (because FAT remapped them). I did so using a
>binary search -- partition as HPFS and see if FORMAT worked, then make
>the partition bigger or smaller based on success or failure and FORMAT
>again. Eventually I identified a 2 MB bad sector area which I then made
>"free space" between two partitions. >So you don't have to use Spinrite.
>- Peter
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If I had a drive like the one you refer to above,
I'd _NOT_ use SpinRite either.

Instead I'd use the TRASH CAN, not the Macintosh style,
but the physical, honest-to-god, carry-it-to-the-curb style.
Especially a 2GB drive, these days.

I've got a couple-three here; anybody need a 2GB, 5400rpm,
1.6" high (HH), fast/narrow SCSI boat anchor?
Complete with Win98, NT4.0, whatever...

Good stuff in it's time to be sure, but that was a decade ago.

--Steve

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