I am trying to install Minix on a 286 with a hard drive that has a large number of bad sectors on it. When I ran the Minix readall, as suggested in the manual, it only found one of the sectors. This is rather disturbing, as when I finished the installation, cpp worked fine for the first 10 test programs, and then was reported to not be an executable file. So, is there a program which will do a complete test of my hard drive and mark sectors bad, or do I need to write my own?
In article <1991Aug25.150414.6...@eng.umd.edu> voya...@eng.umd.edu (Gebran Krikor) writes: >So, is there a program which will do a complete >test of my hard drive and mark sectors bad, or do I need to write >my own?
diskcheck will do a complete test of your hard drive. badblocks will mark bad sectors. (by creating a file that "uses" these sectors).
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