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by europanorama

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ontrack diskmanager showed an unrepairable error at sector x. i have seen a resize-option and relation between sectors and kb/MB. if the error is at the end of first 1/3 i will loose at least 2/3. chas told me i could mark the bad clusters/sectors. how do i do this. my "tool" was making a special partition containing the bad sector- the only problem was make scandisk not to scan.otherwise system would halt.

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by europanorama

the error-drive is quantum st 3.2A
CHS 782-128-63
ERROR AT CYLINDER 12 HEAD 95 SECTOR 1
SO AT THE BEGINNING. how can i mark it and use the drive as slave to keep data?

by cg it

If you use 3rd party software like Norton Utilities, they have an option you can choose. Either try to repair the damaged sector or mark as bad. In a W2K machine at the command prompt, chkdsk is used with the /F parameter to fix errors on the disk. /R parameter locates bad sectors and recovers readable info. Also on W2K machines you can use scan disk (from computer management, tools, scandisk,check disk options, (either automatically fis file system errors , scan for and attempt recover of bad sectors.

by europanorama

i could repair/mark the bad sector(s) with norton system works/utilities(disc doctor). of course ontrack diskmanager would still see the error. i will now use the drive for data-backup.

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