help wanted faults on ide drives i have a mb ide drive and am having a few problems i get data error on drive c messages when reading some files the problem is also steadily getting worse i have run some diagnostic software pctools v and it says that the drive is ok but it does have to retry some sectors and it briefly flashes up an error message which is too quick to read does anybody know of any cheap or free software which could mark these sectors as bad dos doesn t or preferably perform a low level format i have heard that the latter is possible on an ide technical answers would be appreciated it would be nice to be able to use the disk again i am running ms dos on an at clone
