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

From: Roy Barbour Forum: Central Point DOS Forum June 22, 1994 4:19 PM

John, Have fun! Roy Read action !

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

From: Roy Barbour Forum: Central Point DOS Forum 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…

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Bad sector un-flag? Message #64142

From: Syndesis Forum: Central Point DOS Forum 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…

Revive Bad Sectors? Message #57299

From: Syndesis Forum: Central Point DOS Forum March 18, 1994 2:11 PM

I've got CP Tools for DOS v7.0. Recently, some crashing programs under WinNT caused WinNT's 'chkdsk' to run, which I believe marked some sectors as "bad" in my FAT partitions that actually are not bad. This has eaten several megs on two partitions, and I want the space back. CP…