At 03:56 PM 6/27/02 +0530, Philip wrote:

There's major problems here. My floppy drive doesn't seem to be working and I don't have NDD for vfat systems.

If you could get your floppy drive working (if unused for long, an earbud+alcohol aught to cure it), Segate has got good disk utilities at their site. I have used some on my Western Digital drive so I guess they are not hardcoded to work only on Segate drives. You could try them, maybe. A low-level format will mark the bad sectors/blocks and also there is a good probability that your partitions and data will be intact (apart from the 'bad' of course).

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