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toking
Hard drive or ash tray? Mark Unseen   Apr 30 02:49 UTC 1999

I have a harddrive that insists that track 0 is damaged, is there anyway
to say repartion the thing so that it can still be used as a fairly
unreliable second drive?
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wlevak
response 1 of 3: Mark Unseen   May 11 02:49 UTC 1999

The first sector on track 0 must be good.  The partition record goes there.
If you can read the partition information, it is good.  You can the bypass
the rest of track 0 by creating a partition that uses track 0, and then don't
use it for anything.  Make your main partition start at track 1.


toking
response 2 of 3: Mark Unseen   May 11 14:34 UTC 1999

would I have to use Partition Magic or somesuch to do that?
wlevak
response 3 of 3: Mark Unseen   May 13 03:55 UTC 1999

Almost any hard drive utility will do.  It's hard to say since you didn't say
what kind of system you are using,  but the drive layout is the same
regardless of the system.

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