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| 47485 | 2002-05-06 22:40:00 | I have a disk drive that will enter windows, but would not execute programs. I ran scandisk and it found 64 corrupt clusters. After f disking and formatting the disk it no longer finds the allocation table. Is there a way of recovering or moving the allocation table as it appears that the corrupt clusters appear in that region, or should I just bin the drive. | Guest (0) | ||
| 47486 | 2002-05-06 23:08:00 | You haven't said where the corrupt sectors are. if they are at the physical beginning of the disk (as with the first 124 sectors), toss it. Otherwise use it for experimentation. Btw - low level formatting is not available in late model computers and what is generally bandied around as low level format utilites, only overwrite disks with zeros. A low level format writes the cylinders (including spacing), sectors (including interleaving) amongst other things. |
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