Many vendors supply low-level format utilities which run under DOS. These programs are able to mark the bad blocks at a very low level so you can use the disk. Check out the disk manufacturer's website. Alternatively, create a small partition over the first couple blocks and start your real partition after that.
G. Crimp wrote: > Hi, > I got a small used disk given to me that I am trying to put into a > small system I have. When I tried to run mke2fs on any of the partitions I > had created I get > > -------- > Checking fro bad blocks (read-only test): Bad block 0 out of range;ignored. > done > Block 1 in primary superblock/group descriptor area bad. > Blocks 1 through 3 must be good in order to build a filesystem. > Aborting.... > -------- > > Similarly, mkswap gives: > > ------- > 4120 bad pages > mkswap: fatal: first page unreadable > ------- > > I suspect the drive is toast, but thought I would check first. Does > anyone know if a low level format or something else can save this, or is it > just garbage ? > > Thanks, > > Gerald Crimp > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null