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From: jaugustine on 23 Apr 2010 11:45
Hi,

Thanks to everyone who tried to help with my quest.

This Seagate HDD was used very little since I bought it new about 6 years
ago. I bought it as a spare. It was in storage in a protective case and free
of vibration for over 5 years, and it wasn't "mis-handled". When I first
bought it, I formatted it with one 20G partition without any errors. It was
recently, I took it out of storage and I decided to partition it into two
logical drives (C: & D:). It was while formatting the second partition that
all this trouble started. The first partition is fine.

I finally got the second partition formatted, but it took 9 hours. Of
course there were some bad clusters. Afterwards, a surface scan
(Diskscan) in Dos mode was AOK . Note: The marked (by Format) "bad" clusters
are "skipped" during the disk scan. It took 40 minutes in Dos to scan D:
partition. There were no bad (actually new bad clusters) reported.

I am still looking for a Format program that won't try to "recover"
problem clusters if a future event like this occurs.

John

From: kony on 2 May 2010 12:37
On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 11:45:54 -0400, jaugustine(a)verizon.net
wrote:

>Hi,
>
> Thanks to everyone who tried to help with my quest.
>
> This Seagate HDD was used very little since I bought it new about 6 years
>ago. I bought it as a spare. It was in storage in a protective case and free
>of vibration for over 5 years, and it wasn't "mis-handled". When I first
>bought it, I formatted it with one 20G partition without any errors. It was
>recently, I took it out of storage and I decided to partition it into two
>logical drives (C: & D:). It was while formatting the second partition that
>all this trouble started. The first partition is fine.
>
> I finally got the second partition formatted, but it took 9 hours. Of
>course there were some bad clusters. Afterwards, a surface scan
>(Diskscan) in Dos mode was AOK . Note: The marked (by Format) "bad" clusters
>are "skipped" during the disk scan. It took 40 minutes in Dos to scan D:
>partition. There were no bad (actually new bad clusters) reported.
>
> I am still looking for a Format program that won't try to "recover"
>problem clusters if a future event like this occurs.
>
> John


IIRC, the Format command from DOS6 and higher does not
retest clusters marked as bad unless you specifically tell
it to do so with the "/c" switch in the command.
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