Hi Jan, On Sat, 3 Aug 2002, at 14:08:40 [GMT -0400] (19:08 where I live) you wrote:
JR> Hi Thomas. JR> At 1:29 PM on Saturday, August 03, 2002 you wrote the JR> following about [a real mystery]: TF>> [...] Some disk utilities will mark those sectors as TF>> "bad" and will not allow the O/S subsystem to use them TF>> again. That's what you need, [/...] JR> Can you suggest one that works with NTFS rather than JR> FAT32. I had considered Spinrite v5 only to discover that JR> it doesn't work w NTFS. I have a feeling that if I could JR> do this, this particular problem would be solved. Any more JR> of these & I would certainly consider changing HDs JR> quickly. I would have from the start. Example, I lost all of my email from 1996-2001 cause of a disk fault... mind you, I was using LookOut at the time. That was all my Westminster correspondance, thousands of emails from user groups, correspondence with friends and colleagues gone - thanks to one HDD sector. Now if I get them, the disc goes. Fortunately I moved over to SCSI at the same time for my system disc as well...! A -- 03 August 2002, 19:15 [ Adam Rykala : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ [new-wales] project : www.new-wales.net ] [ Private key : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] My keyboard keeps changing what I type. All messages both into and out of this account have been scanned with AntiVir's Antivirus Mail Gateway for Linux. However, all attachments should be scanned also with a virus checker at the receiver's end to ensure that the files are clean and free of virus infection. All messages are for the attention of the recipient only. ________________________________________________________ Current Ver: 1.61 FAQ : http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Bug Reports: https://www.ritlabs.com/bt/