Spinrite looks very impressive,  and has some good hard drive benchmarking
tools, but for diagnostic and repair at the DOS level I prefer NDD.exe
Norton Disk Doctor for DOS, which comes with every version of Norton
utilities.

Rode
The NOSPIN Group

>I understand that Gibson Research (grc.com I think) apparently produces a
>program called Spinrite which is reputed to be able to repair bad sectors.
>However, it's alarmingly expensive, even tho it's only about 300k, and they
>don't have a trial or demo version, so I can't vouch for it's efficacy.
>Ian Porter

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