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Bad Harddrive Sectors
« on: January 03, 2003, 04:22:52 PM »
Is there anything on the Amiga which will mark off bad sectors on a HD so the OS will skip past it and not try to use it?
 

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Re: Bad Harddrive Sectors
« Reply #1 on: January 03, 2003, 04:29:27 PM »
-The clean way:
If you have a scsi drive you can use the 3.1 HD Toolbox to mark off bad sectors (The 4.0 HD Toolbox also can do this.

-The dirty way:
Use Quarterback tools (I don't know if it will work with big harddrives)
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Re: Bad Harddrive Sectors
« Reply #2 on: January 03, 2003, 04:31:02 PM »
Guess I should've given more info.  It's a 500MB IDE drive.  You mentioned the toolbox will work with SCSI, but not IDE?  Also, if you use it, will it erase what's on the drive like partitioning?