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The issue was how you used the Jaz disks. They were sold with the
advertisement that the could be used as hard drive but no where did Iomega ever
state that they were incompatible with windows operating system with regards to
disk copying. This is where all the problems start. It was the secret partition
on the disks that allocated the sectors that made the problem. Iomega built more
than 1 gig of sectors in each disk and then had the program in the secret
partition would pick out only good sectors so there would never be any bad
sectors during a disk check. I still have ten 1 gig disks that if I could wipe
clean would sell but both Jaz drives I still have are broken. I even have a
low gig Maxtor drive that I copied the files from the Jaz disks to that has
a partition that I never been able to format away. Even a low format under DOS
could remove the partition. Incompatibility in certain areas is what made the
Jaz disks defective and then the drives broke down as they couldn't completely
read the disk and kept searching and spinning erratically until the drive
broke.
In a message dated 7/8/05 11:34:55 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
greyfell@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
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