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Re: Telltale signs of drive dying?
« on: September 16, 2004, 11:20:53 PM »
With regards to the floppy trouble:
There are two utils on Aminet you can use in conjunction with a
special floppy head cleaning diskette.

I noticed that in the UK, WHSmith are currently selling a little
all-in-one computer cleaning kit comprising a mini-vacuum, swabs,
cloths, isopropyl alcohol etc.

If you get a floppy drive cleaning diskette get this:
http://ftp.uni-paderborn.de/pub/aminet/disk/misc/Scrub.lha

And this:
http://ftp.uni-paderborn.de/pub/aminet/disk/misc/scrubber13.lha

With regards to hard disks, how do SCSI users scan the surface for bad
blocks without using HDToolBox? The Phase5 SCSI-Utils doesn't come
with a CheckDisk/ScanDisk style program.

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Re: Telltale signs of drive dying?
« Reply #1 on: September 18, 2004, 12:47:13 AM »
Hmmmm, X-Copy...

Thomas mentioned earlier on in the thread that you might have virus
trouble and according to the latest Virus-Z brainfile there appears to
be versions of X-Copy that are viruses.

I know X-Copy is good for duplicating disks precisely (with Nibble
mode) but there were a lot of illegal versions of it floating around.

I seem to remember there being a green GUI and a pink one.

Be careful that one infected disk isn't spreading a virus through
memory to another. If you have doubt then switch the power off for 20
seconds (a reset warm reboot may not be sufficient to clear the memory
of viruses).

Other than that it could be just the drive head needs recalibrating or
cleaning up with a cleaner diskette.

Before you dump your drive though, let us know the exact make, model
and revision for future reference!

:-D