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What you may want to do is instruct your disk to read a particular LBA, or Logical Block Address.
In most cases, one would do this with a program coded to call low-level hardware routines. But if you're simply interested in making the read/write arm move, you can download a program that will do this: Partition Table Editor.
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Although this program is designed to edit Partition Tables, it has the ability to examine any given LBA. To make the read/write arm move, simply select an LBA near one end those available, then select another one near the beginning.
This DOS program will run within a Command Line environment on Windows if you open it using Run as Administrator. If you get a warning, click [Ignore] and proceed.
Select your Physical device and click OK
When the disk data displays, click on Search
When the Search box opens, click on GoTo. . .
When the GoTo Sector box opens, enter the desired Cylinder number.
Of course, just about ANY disk editing program will do the same thing, so if you'd rather use something else, it should work too.
Hope this helps.
Cheers, PW.
P.S. It may be easier to tell your system to Defrag the disk. In many cases, the Defrag operation makes the disk heads really jump around quite a bit -- plus, you can watch what's happening on the screen while it's doing its thing. |
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