> How did you repair the damaged sector? I have a laptop HD that has a > few that need to be fixed. Did you just mark the bad sector off?
In PCs, I run Scandisk (or other disk-checking utility, such the Norton Disk Doctor) and use the "surface scan" option. This finds all damaged sectors. When it finds one, it tries to recover its contents and move them to a "safe" sector, and then marks it as bad so it won't be used again. And now the part that may apply to compact Macs ;-) . The problem is that, at least with IDE drives, when a drive starts giving bad sectors, it is a sign that it's going to die. I think the same goues to SCSI drives, but I can say it for sure. So have caution when recovering bad sectors (specially if the drive has a lot of them). Greetings, Antonio Rodr�guez (Grijan) <ftp://grijan.cjb.net:21000/> -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>. Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
