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marked bad sectors, and thence prevented writes and reads to and from 
bad sectors, thus protecting data.

If you still wanted the disk for Win98, that may be a solution.

We have a Seagate 40GB HDD, and no problems with it, and use Seagates as 
preferred disks, with no problems. Our oldest (I believe), is a 454MB 
Seagate HDD, about 12 years old, running as swap disk in the server.

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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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"So once you do know what the question actually is,
 you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
  Chapter 28 of 
  "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
  A Trilogy In Four Parts",
  written by Douglas Adams, 
  published by Pan Books, 1992 
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