pts “TRACK 0 BAD”
Failure analysis and solution: as disk track 0 includes much information, if it’s broken, the disk could not work. When face such a problem, you can change the disk track 0 to other track. If you use PUN8.0 tool under Norton tool package DOS to repair disk track 0, then it could work after formatting the disk.
7. Deal with disk bad track
Failure symptom: after system runs disk scanner, it prompts that there’s bad track.
Failure analysis and solution: there’re only two types of bad track, one is logical bad track, namely, when invalid shutdown or application errors appear, system would mark certain section, such bad track is caused by software factor and you can repair it by software, so it’s called logical bad track; another one is physical bad track, because on the surface of the disk, there’s impurity or the magnetic head scraps the disk surface. This bad track is caused because hardware factor and unrepairable. So it is called physical bad track. For disk logical bad track, generally, we can repair it with the command Scandisk in Windows operation system and use other tool to scan the disk, even use low format to repair disk logical bad track and eliminate viruses on boot area. But low format causes great damage to disk; suggest not using this one. But for disk physical bad track, generally, we can divide the disk physical bad track into one partition with partition software, and shield the partition, in case the magnetic head reads/writes the area again and causes bad track dif