Partition Magic has an option to check and mark the bad sectors. Or, you mark them unusable with scandisk before repartitioning with PM. On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, Amanda Lee wrote: > Yeah, but I have some bad sectors on my 4Gig drive on this old 200MHZ box > and when I use Partition Magic to partition the drive, it won't go around > these few bad sectors and partition the drive. Trying to find a good > source of an inexpensive 6 to 10 gig drive to replace but don't want to > spend a lot as con't see the point. Egghead is going under and can't find > one there for now. > Anyone know any good source for cheap but fully warranteed HDs or how I > can brute force this silly partitioning issue and circumvent the bad > sectors/clusters? > > I really am chomping at the bit to get up and running with linux. > > Thanks! - Amanda > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org Will electronic books surpass print books? Read our white paper, Surpassing Gutenberg, at http://www.afb.org/ebook.asp Download a free sample Digital Talking Book edition of Martin Luther King Jr's inspiring "I Have A Dream" speech at http://www.afb.org/mlkweb.asp Learn how to make accessible software at http://www.afb.org/accessapp.asp
