From: Kertis Henderson <i AT dont DOT reply DOT to DOT unsolicited DOT email>
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Subject: Re: low-level format of msdos partition needed?
Date: Thu, 03 Jul 1997 00:28:46 -0400
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Hans Wienen wrote:
> When I tried to format the new msdos partition, the format programme
> really screwed up, giving me about 700 k (!) instead of 500M, the rest
> being "bad sectors". I suppose this is a low-level formatting problem,
> since if I mount the partition under Linux, it can read it, write it and
> basically do anything with it you would suspect an operating system ever
> wanted to do with a hard disk. But dos still gives me about 500 M bad
> sectors.

Not to be off-topic, but...  Read the Linux fdisk documentation.  You
shouldn't create ms-dos partitions with it.  You should use ms-dos fdisk
to create dos partitions.  I hope this helps.

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Kertis Henderson
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"The software said it requires Windows 95 or better, so I installed
Linux."