If I remember correctly, the initialize will handle bad sector marking. You
might still get lucky - but if you do, I would run backups frequently.
As for backups, if you do not already have it, get Retrospect. That is
easily the best backup utility around.
on 01.7.12 7:32 AM, Bill Cheeseman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Apple still requires that I reinitialize the disk before they'll do anything
> more. If it won't pass a media test then, they'll replace it and refund the
> $49 service call charge. Sigh. Oh well, I was planning to buy a big external
> FireWire drive, anyway; it will be delivered tomorrow, and I can start
> backing up whatever I can.
>
> There sure is a downside to bigger hard drives. I'm not complaining, mind
> you, but It's going to take me a month to reconstitute my hard drive the way
> I want it, once all this is over. I've got Mac OS 9.1 and Mac OS X on the
> same partition, so I have to rebuild two complete operating systems and all
> the stuff that goes with them.
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