The latest version of DOS I have does not...

Post #229,610 by a6l6e6x 10/14/05 10:05:44 PM Reply	The latest version of DOS I have does not... understand FAT-32 so I went back to a restore of week back and that got me throught to a normal boot. Wheew! I seem to have some bad sectors on the hard drive and suspect that may be part of the problem. Doing a "thorough" Scandisk now. Alex The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. -- Bertrand Russell
Post #229,612 by Ashton 10/14/05 10:23:43 PM 10/14/05 10:33:29 PM Reply	(Might repair.. with SpinRight? [/shill]) That is.. Often enough the base format magn. domains have migrated radially with wear, time.. reducing output to read-head. Eventually enough that CRC retries won't make it. Not necessarily really 'BAD' sectors at all. SR moves all the data for each cyl, then redoes a low-level format -- where the head actually is now, etc. Also 'scrubs' adjacent bits, really pretty close to an authentic B/H curve check! Has a statistical recovery mode which makes mondo passes, where the data doesn't 'seem' to be quite there anymore: and a cute display for the Gamers -- of how it's doing. Pretty amazing stuff; from a physics perspective - it ain't no snake oil. I've seen lots of B/H curves.. Steve Gibson may not make the Top Ten here, for his Barnum pitches to the unwashed -- but I think SR is amongst the cleverest pieces of mere 'software' I've ever encountered. Luck Edited by Ashton Oct. 14, 2005, 10:33:29 PM EDT Expand All History
Post #229,614 by Andrew Grygus 10/15/05 12:42:20 AM Reply	Any working Windows 95/98 computer . . . . . (or even partially working) will be happy to make you a FAT32 capable boot disk. format a: /s If you need any of the commands like format, scandisk, fdisk, etc. just copy them out of \\Windows\\command. You should have a couple for emergencies if you maintain Windows 95/98/Me computers. [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]
Post #229,625 by hnick 10/15/05 9:08:27 AM Reply	If you need a boot disk, try www.bootdisk.com [link\|http://www.bootdisk.com\|http://www.bootdisk.com] It's a pretty neat site.
Post #229,648 by a6l6e6x 10/15/05 1:14:07 PM Reply	Good idea, thanks! Alex The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. -- Bertrand Russell

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