At 9:45 PM -0800 1/8/2009, Ernest L. Gunerius wrote: >When I finally recovered from my monster crash of Dec 17and after an >"Write all zeros" Erase I then installed 10.4.11 on my 250 Gig and >partitioned my 500 Gig to 420 and 80 then realizing that the 500 Gig >may have had physical problems I did a "Write all Zeros " erase on >the 420 and 80. > >That gave me a 420 Gig and a 45 Gig. Many bad sectors on the 80 gig.
bzzzt. Replace that drive. Loosing a few KILOBYTES to bad sectors happens, over the life span of a drive. Loosing GIGABYTES???? *gak* Thirty five GIG! *choke* That drive is brick, waiting to become. >When I run MacJanitor on the 250 Gig and then Increment the other >Volumes does the Clean-up on the 250 get properly transferred to the >other volumes? Yes, but in your particular case, I wouldn't trust that backup on that drive. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
