Check and repair floppy disk problems, test an MS-DOS disk, and mark bad blocks in the FAT
Syntax
mbadblocks drive:
All unused bad blocks are marked as such in the FAT.
This is intended to be used right after mformat.
It is not intended to salvage bad disks.
bugs
Mbadblocks should (but doesn't yet) also try to
salvage bad blocks which are in use by reading them
repeatedly, and then mark them bad.
"All things can corrupt perverted minds" ~ Ovid (tristia)
Related linux commands:
mtools - Manipulate MS-DOS files.
cksum - Print CRC checksum and byte counts.
Equivalent Windows command:
CHKDSK - Check Disk - check and repair disk
problems.