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From: Richard Chang <richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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Subject: Re: hard reading error
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On Wed, 10 Apr 1996, J Wunsch wrote:

> As Richard Chang wrote:
> 
> > 	Hmmm, I don't have a backup... Otherwise I would just copy the HD 
> > to another HD and just reinstall FreeBSD then copy the stuff from the 
> > backup drive...
> 
> Of course, this *won't* repair your disk.  It would still experience
> the bad sectors.  Reformat it (hardware reformat) before reinstalling
> FreeBSD on it.

	I know, what I meant is first copy all the stuff to another drive 
then use the boot/root FreeBSD floppies and delete and create the 
partitions on the original drive and then just not have any distributions 
on hand.  Then just reboot, copy all the stuff from the backup drive over 
and then sup to the latest -current and make world and rebuild the 
kernel, will this work?

Richard