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Subject: Re: OT-DFSee Help for Catastrophic Disk Failure
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In , on 12/24/03 
   at 01:38 AM, Mike O'Connor  said:

>If you have CRC errors on the disk that means that they are 'hard" 
>errors and those sectors cannot be reliably written to/read from and 
>will have to be marked BAD - permanently so that they will never be used 
>again.

    In that case, you can use Spinrite, from Gibson Research
(www.grc.com). You'll have to use it AFTER recovering the information and
BEFORE putting the disk back to use,  because it only "sees" FAT/FAT32
partitions. Aside from this limitation it does a very deep surface
analysis/recovery.

    Regards
    Nelson  

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Nelson M. G. Santiago 
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Today is Tue Dec 23, 2003.

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