Re: How to find bad sectors on Hard Disk?

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From: Peter Ted Szymonik
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 1989 03:32

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This may be a weird way to find bad sectors, but MichTron's Tune-Up
program can show a box will shaded areas showing used sectors, if you have
bad sectors you will get 'spots' in this pict after you format the 
partition!  I used this to find a nasty scratch on my hard drive surface
caused by a crashed head - looked like this:

                   ..  
                     ...
                        ..
                          ....
                               (etc)

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