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Article #5551Need help with PC-DOS 3.1 bad cluster allocation
From: Brent Chapman
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 1986 05:33
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 1986 05:33
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I use an AT, with a 20M disk, running DOS 3.10. I have been experiencing problems with DOS's handling of bad clusters on the disk. PC-TOOLS showed two bad clusters on the disk when it was formatted, before any files were copied onto it. Now, however, it appears that DOS has allocated right over the top of one of those two bad clusters. Has anyone had any experience with this type of problem? Can anyone suggest any solutions? I'd like to be able to mark these clusters in some way and prevent DOS from allocating them. I could simply create a file that is made up of these two bad clusters, then hide the file, but when I did a backup/restore, that would because the file would be restored to an arbitrary position on the disk, and something else would be written over those bad clusters. Any other ideas? Thanks! Brent Chapman chapman@miro.berkeley.edu ucbvax!miro!chapman
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!miro!chapman From: chapman@mir.berkeley.edu (Brent Chapman) Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: Need help with PC-DOS 3.1 bad cluster allocation Message-ID: <11712@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: Tue, 4-Feb-86 00:33:01 EST Article-I.D.: ucbvax.11712 Posted: Tue Feb 4 00:33:01 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 5-Feb-86 05:06:26 EST Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: chapman@miro.berkeley.edu (Brent Chapman) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 23