Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 20:56:14 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <1.5.4.16.19970203205733.318fa6e4@walrus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net From: Bob Schultz Subject: Re: [opendos] hard disk splits Sender: owner-opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net Precedence: bulk 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.