Re: My hard drive does a Lazarus.

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From: Ian Lowery
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:00

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Mike Powers <mpowers@inebraska.com> wrote:

>I would suspect a virus which you didn't get rid of until
>you did a complete wipe, or a serious problem in the
>partition table.  

No, virusses don't cause real bad sectors and force the drive to hunt
in its attempt to reread them. All testing was done off clean floppy
disks.

Ian Lowery

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