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Originally Posted by Steevo
I tried to copy to it with digital dolly from a working snap disk. No success. Errors, clearly a disk problem.
So I did what you suggested, run spinrite on it and it now works. One bad block, the first one on the disk. The rest tested fine. It's up and running now.
Thanks for all your help.
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Glad everything is up and running again. The 1st block is the MBR, The following sectors is where the OS resides.
I would make a copy of the boot tracks for future needs. On old HD you never know when they will fail. It's just cheap insurance. I have my image files burned over to several CD's. I wanted extra copies just in case one goes bad.
SpinRite is a very good HD tool, the reason I recommend it to users having problems. Some think it's to expensive and never purchase it. I use it on all of my HD before I put them into service and every 6-9 months to keep track of what kind of shape the drives are in. On old HD's it can refresh the media, which in turn will give you longer service. One thing I have noticed on ALL HD's is if it hangs in the 4-6% area your in trouble. This is apparently where all of the drive sector data is stored. So Problems Here mean Major problems.