Re: Bothersome HD.

[Craig Andrews <nospam [at] fishbot.uklinux.net>]

On Sun, 2 Apr 2000, Barrie Bremner wrote:

> 
>  I`ve been quite stupid.
> 
>  I dropped a 6Gb drive on the floor the other day. Now it looks like
> there *might* be a few errors on the drive.
> 
>  Strange thing is, the drive will take Linux happily (first time it
> wasn`t happy, but it`s OK now), but the Winblows 98 setup problem, err,
> program hangs on the format.
> 
>  I wouldn`t bother with Windoze any more, however this machine is going
> to my folks.
> 
>  Anyone got any ideas how to format this drive so that any badblocks are
> ignored and I can use the damned beast again?
> 
>  Cheers.
> 

Try an unconditional DOS format (format c: /u), or even use the BIOS low
level format utility to take note of the bad tracks (do NOT format the
drive tho').

Anyway, give 'em SuSE or Mandrake or whatever. KDE is 'nearly' widoze.
Doesn't crash as much either ;-)

Craig

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