Date:	Mon, 3 Feb 1997 20:56:14 -0500 (EST)
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From:	Bob Schultz <unicorn AT walrus DOT com>
Subject:	Re: [opendos] hard disk splits
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At 06:09 PM 2/3/97 -0600, Colin W. Glenn wrote:
>On Mon, 3 Feb 1997, Jim Lefavour wrote:
>> 
>> I used FIPS to split my original partition, and tried using PART and  
>
>What?  Where? Wh-a-minute, what's FIPS and where can I get one?  Better
>yet, I'll explain what I need and perhaps one of you may have a solution
>for me.
>
>About a year ago, I bumped my hard drive.  No physical damage was done,
>but the drive was writing at the time and it trashed a bunch of address
>marks.  Now I have an invisible ceiling on my 540m drive at about
>200-220m's.  Scandisk _will_ find 'bad' clusters, but after reporting
>which cluster gave it a fit, it hangs.
>
>Any suggestions?
>

It sounds like you're going to have to low-level format the drive to recover
the damaged section.  See if you can get a low-level format utility from the
drive manufacturer.

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