Re: [WinMac] Re: reloading NT

Dan Schwartz(expresso[at]snip.net)
Thu, 11 Feb 1999 21:40:10 -0500

        Well Alex, there's your answer: Your hard drive has bad blocks.

        If you perform a low-level format, these (logical) blocks will be mapped
out at the driver level.

        If you want to have some fun, throw the drive onto a Mac and low-level
format it with Silverlining: This will allow you to actually see the bad
block location (address).

        Keep in mind, though, that on a SCSI drive there are already "factory" bad
blocks that are mapped out in firmware; and these will not show up during
the low level format.

        I hope this helps!
        Dan

At 09:18 PM 2/11/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Well, it's official. NT sucks and I've been Gatesified!
>
>I tried using tools/check now as Dan suggested. My machine gets to the
>blue screen, starts checking the drive, finishes, reports some bad
>clusters and freezes. I've done this a number of times but it always
>freezes at the same screen. Now I can't even get into NT to try my
>network backup!!!!
>
>Than, in my book, sucks!
>
>Now, I need a utility that will allow me to format from DOS an NTFS
>partition (NTFSDOS doesn't see it) anyone know of such a thing?
>
>Between this an what happened at work (NT just dying on me, I think I've
>sen enough).
>
>Alex Dearden
>pata@doglover.com
>
>
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