Re: Help!! NEED HD Utils

[glyn@AMISK.CS.UALBERTA.CA (Reade Glyn Devin)]

In article <e-roberts4-290793082444@server.ips.uiuc.edu>, Paul Roberts writes...
> 
> I have an Apple IIGS and my HD will not boot.  Is there any shareware
> programs that will find bad block on my HD and mark them bad?

I use Prosel 16 for all hard drive maintanance;  it's a very good package
that I strongly recommend.  Go to Volume Repair and use "Bad Block 
Scan/Lockout".  BTW, Prosel is commercial-ware.

There likely are other programs that can also do it, but I haven't used
them.

This may sound like a motherhood statement, but Have you done a low-level
format, followed by a high-level format?

_However_, locking out bad blocks will only work if certain blocks right
at the beginning of the disk are good:  My Vulcan is getting old and has
some bad blocks right near the beginning -- I was forced to make a /BAD
partition of about 2Meg and then have my normal partitions ( /KLOVIA,
/TELLUS, and /TRENCO -- /TRENCO being HFS :)  following /BAD.  Since I
didn't try to format /BAD after partitioning, it doesn't show up as a
usable partition.  The result is a loss of about 2Meg, but a still usable
Vulcan.

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        G. Devin Reade          glyn@cs.ualberta.ca