On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 4:00 PM, Micheal Espinola Jr <[email protected]> wrote: > Needless to say my friend initially gets a bit pissed and blames everything > on me ...
Of course. Macs are perfect. It must have been your fault. You're probabbly holding it wrong. > Further note: Reformattting the drive works fine on a Mac or a PC. I > formatted it HFS, FAT, Ext 3, Ext 2, as well as NTFS - all no problems. > But, even on the PC - it fails CHKDSK. Boot Linux and run "badblocks -w" on the drive. (Actually, that should be possible under Mac OS X, too. I dunno if Apple includes anything like badblocks "in the box", though.) That will do multiple passes of a destructive write-then-read test. It often "fixes" a drive that is returning errors, because writing to every block tells the drive it can stop trying to relocate that one bad block that is causing other tools to choke. (OTOH, a drive that has developed one bad block may soon develop more, but drives are so big these days that error free operation is approaching statistical impossibility.) -- Ben
