>Xcopy will not create a bad cluster, it can't.  It has no
>formatting capabilities.  It is merely a duplicator.


I decided to low level format the drive. After re-booting only half of the
drive's capacity was regonzied. This is an older Bios, and does not allow
for Large or LBA mode. Although, I'm not quite sure what made the BIOS
recognize the prior size, it no longer regognized the full 1.08 GB.

I think it duplicated the bad data and the new drive marked it as bad
sectors. I downloaded a program called MaxBlast ( http://www.maxtor.com)
from Maxtor's Web Site that makes the installation of the drive so much
smoother. Any way, this program allowed me to partition the drives and have
them recognized under Windows 3.1 . This is on a 386DX system with 8MB Ram.

I ran scandisk on both partitions and the Bad Sectors that were previously
marked, are no longer there! It is completely ODD to me as to how this was
all possible. I though that once a drive had Bad Sectors, it was stuck with
Bad Sectors!?


Guido Piraino


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