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To: wily who wrote (5386)	8/25/1999 10:50:00 PM
From: PMS Witch	Read Replies (2) of 110653

ScanDisk ... thorough mode I test in thorough mode only about once a year. As yet, I've never uncovered a problem on a hard drive, but had a few floppy disk failures. Soft errors, or the kind of stuff discovered with the quick check, visit repeatedly as sometimes a piece of cow-lick code decides to hop the fence and cause mischief. I prefer to choose my own option settings so ScanDisk does something sensible when problems appear. I'm just lucky! I've never had a hard disk fail, or a factory-level format go stale. (I hope the disk-error gods don't follow this thread!) Again, prevention is the key: catch small errors and make backups regularly. Cheers, PW.

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