On Fri March 2 2007 15:54, Carlos E. R. wrote: > The Friday 2007-03-02 at 15:45 -0500, Carl Hartung wrote: > > > There is no need for that with FAT. > > > > The disk drive oem utilities I've seen usually don't deal at the > > filesystem level. > > But FAT does. Bad sectors can be marked on the FAT.
I understand this, Carlos, but it presumes everything up to and including the drives built-in controller and firmware are functioning normally. When I encounter problems like the OP is describing, I want to see everything the manufacturer's tools can tell me before deciding how to proceed... especially if they're free to download. ;-) Carl -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
