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PC bad sectors?

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#41520From: Supra CorpJun 23, 1994 1:18 PM
I think there is..you can use chkdsk to do it..the command is chkdsk/f (for fix) BUT..WARNING WARNING When it fixes the sectors it will try to recover old files that had previously been saved in that area so you need to BE SURE to have a path specified for temp directory.. ie (from the dos prompt) md temp (making temp dir) set temp=C:\temp (assigning the system temp dir to the temp on the C: drive) chkdsk/f Alex the warning is because if you don't specify it somewhere it will write to your root directory and when it hits 512 kiss goodbye to the drive.