Re: focus drive formatting

[guenter@student.uni-kl.de (Marvin)]

Godhead (god@heaven.com) wrote:
: My 200MB focus drive came from alltech partitioned into 7 drives.  I would
: like to partition it into one 32 MB Prodos drive and one 168 MB HFS drive. 
: Is this possible?  If so, how?

Use the FocusFormatting Software that comes with your drive. Choose
the Change partitions option. Resize the partitions according to your
wishes. Then boot a system disk and format the partitions according
to your wishes.

BTW, Alltech has just updated the FocusUtilities. You can now use
DOS 3.3 partitions. Point your web browser to 
http://www.allelec.com/aplfiles.htm to download them.

: I'm trying to do it now and the 168MB drive keeps giving me an error
: message.  it says the drive may be physically damaged yet it worked just
: fine before I attempted this!  As we speak I'm using ADU to zero the larger
: drive partition.

Each HD usually has some bad sectors. Use some sector utilities like
ProSel to mark and lock out the damaged sectors.

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