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This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.

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#64161- Bad sector un-flag? Message #64176

From: Roy Barbour Central Point DOS Forum · PC Tools Desktop June 22, 1994 4:19 PM

John, Have fun! Roy Read action !

#64142– Bad sector un-flag? Message #64158

From: Roy Barbour Central Point DOS Forum · PC Tools Desktop June 22, 1994 11:18 AM

John, If your really REALLY confident and know what you are doing, you can use the PC Shell disk editor to edit the FATs directly. PCTools v8 and v9 have a disk editor that makes the job much easier, because that version of DiskEdit have actual FAT viewers which are…

Bad sector un-flag? Message #64142

From: Syndesis Central Point DOS Forum · PC Tools Desktop June 22, 1994 8:58 AM

I'm looking for a way to un-flag bad sectors on my DOS boot partition. I have PC Tools v7.0. Six months ago, the July '93 version of WinNT malfunctioned several times on reboot because of my improperly terminated SCSI bus, and its version of 'chkdsk' runs on start-up, and it…