I don't really recall exactly, but I seem to remember that one does not want
to use any disk tools other than Iomega tools on Zip and Jaz disks. Sorry
but I remember reading that somewhere on the Iomega site, but I don't know
where.  I had a Jaz at one time but the drive croaked, out of warranty, just
about the time my Zip started with the click of death. Zip was replaced by
Iomega, Jaz was not. I did however get a new disk to try, but it was the
drive it's self. Any body want to buy a Jaz disk cheap? Needless to say all
of the above left a somewhat foul taste with their products.

Brad Loomis
Los Angeles, CA

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I have a Jaz disk that seems to have some bad sectors. Copying to it
appears OK, but you won't be able to copy files to another disk. I'd like
to have the system take the bad sectors out so no files can be copied to
that location. I have tried reformatting it. It took longer time when it
reached bad sectors. It appeared to work since I can find different areas
as system files when checking with Win2K default defragmentation program.
In reality, it does not appear to be 100% reliable. I still cannot copy
files from the disk sometimes. I wonder if there is a better program that
can do better job than Windows.

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