Best Partitioning Program...

nightice

Q wrote:

It didn't? What was wrong with it?

There's a Windows bit right? I ran it and NTVDM said there was an illegal instruction.

BOD

you have to run it from dos on a bootdisk i think

Slash

BOD wrote:

if u wanna fix a dirve... sprinrite

Does it fix badblocks?
And where to get?

nightice

- Most of the time
- Q's server

Q

It does direct disk access, which NT and NTVDM do NOT like. If you run it it gives you the option to make a bootable diskette.

Slash, it runs through tests against the drive and marks bad sectors as bad, and if a sector is already marked bad but can safely (By its standards) store data, it reverses the marking. Nothing can really "fix" bad blocks, if that area of the platter is physically damaged, then it's damaged.

-Q

Slash

Q wrote:

It does direct disk access, which NT and NTVDM do NOT like. If you run it it gives you the option to make a bootable diskette.

Slash, it runs through tests against the drive and marks bad sectors as bad, and if a sector is already marked bad but can safely (By its standards) store data, it reverses the marking. Nothing can really "fix" bad blocks, if that area of the platter is physically damaged, then it's damaged.

-Q

Anyway it's a good thing. Is it for DOS or for Windows?

Q

It runs off a DOS bootable floppy.

-Q

BOD

it can make an ISO image as well

Q

It can put it on anything you can write too!

-Q

Slash

Let's get it!

bittin

i use Partion Magic or gparted for the most of the time