20 Apr
2003
20 Apr
'03
12:12 p.m.
On Sun, 20 Apr 2003, Jeffrey S. Worley wrote:
I've also used this method to produce
'bad' sectors to duplicate simple
copy protection schemes. Write a program that repeatedly writes and
reads the sector in question. When the just-written sector is not
readable without tugging on the disk again, you are in business for a
bad sector. It really works.
It's generally easier to just find and remove the copy protection ;)
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