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Bad Spot On A Disk |
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WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS
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Solutions: Information can be lost because of flaws on the disk itself. Problems on a disk can be the result of garbage information being placed on disk, or bad spots on the disk that cause the information to be unreadable. A bad spot, for example, can be caused by loss of the magnetic signal. Although the DOS CHKDSK (Check Disk) command detects bad sectors and clusters, it doesn't mark such areas as "bad," thus allowing future copies of file information to be copied back to the troublesome sections. Third-party utility programs (such as the Norton Utilities, PCTools, SpinRite, Optune, the Mace Utilities, the Golden Bow Utilities, etc.) can mark the bad sections, and thus prevent future writing to such areas. If the bad spot is in a location where a file is stored, both DOS and a utility program can try to read as much of the file as possible, and move it to another safe location on the disk. NOTE: These third-party utilities should NOT be used on "compressed" hard drives without consulting the compression utility's manual or calling the manufacturer's technical support line first. Failure to do this may lead to a loss of all data on the hard drive. |
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