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In article <50753564wnr@sounds.demon.co.uk>
           Dan@sounds.demon.co.uk "Dan St. John-Knight" writes:

> 
> sounds like a problem I encountered with the same type of drive at work. I think> it may be to do with the drive's 1057 cylinders - DOS can only handle 1024
>  normally,
> unless you use either software - or, preferably, a BIOS which can 'translate'
>  the
> drive geometry.
> 
> Just go into the CMOS setup program, reduce the number of cylinders to 1024,
>  and 
> your drive should then pass SCANDISK with flying colours !
> 
> BTW, if you want that extra space, you'll need to enable LBA mode, and REFORMAT
>  the
> entire drive. You can then copy it all back - for the sake of an extra 10MB or
>  so (!!)
> 
> Lemme know if ya want more info .....
> 
> 
> Dan.

Hi Dan, thanks for your comments.  Maybe you're right and the disk was 
never formatted over the last 30 or so tracks.  I vividly recall that it 
used to pass scandisk but I never paid that close attention on whether the 
disk was formatted to 520 or 545 MBytes.

Does anyone know of a friendly high level formatter which I could use to 
just reformat the end of the disk and not lose any of my files?

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   Tony - G3SKR / AA2PM                  email:  tgold@microvst.demon.co.uk
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