Subj : checking for bad sectors under OS/2
To   : Michael Balcos
From : Johan Zwiekhorst
Date : Tue Apr 12 2005 10:28 pm

Hi Michael!

In your message to Peter Knapper, dated <Tuesday April 12 2005 02:22>, you 
wrote:

 >MB: Ok, thanks for pointing my error. :) So I guess I'll try again to use
 >MB: LBA mode after clearing my hard disk. BTW, does Seagate disk wizard
 >MB: have an option for clearing my hard disk so that I can use LBA under
 >MB: OS/2?

You don't need to clear your hard disk. Changing the access mode will 
effectively garble all data on the disk. You will need to repartition the drive 
and restore your backup after switching to LBA mode.

Kind regards,

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