On Mon, 5 Jun 2000 10:44:00 +0200, Laurens Holst wrote: >> It's not so simple to rearrange the cluster table. >I suppose you mean the FAT. >It's not that hard, really. Just scan the entire disk for bad sectors and >keep up a table in which they are listed. Then try to read & recover the bad >sectors, and relocate them to a 'clean' disk area by writing it to that >location and modifying the FAT a little. No, I'm talking about the cluster table, a component of the FAT system. You have to maintain the lost chains generated and so on. Is something boring to do... (verify if a cluster is or not linked). >> Yes, but you'll not be able to read the sector, also. So, how to >>relocate its data? >Just try to read it several times. And if that doesn't work, insert a >cluster filled with zeroes. >That's what (MSDOS) scandisk does... Argh! Weird. This would not help, in most cases. Most files will never work. But it's a solution. ----- Abra�OS/2, Daniel Caetano ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) /| | | |\ \| ___ |/ OS/2 Sites: http://www.quasarbbs.com/daniel/ \/ ----- \/ http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/8752/os2hp/os2index.html | | MSX Sites: http://www.fudeba.cjb.net/ -- -- Drawings: http://www.djgallery.tsx.org/ ...Programar e' a arte de organizar zeros e uns de forma que eles produzam trabalho util! **** MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes) in the body (not the subject) of the message. Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] More information on MSX can be found in the following places: The MSX faq: http://www.faq.msxnet.org/ The MSX newsgroup: comp.sys.msx The MSX IRC channel: #MSX on Undernet ****
