Thanks for the tip - I'll give that a shot next time I'm in this situation. During my various throw-away tests with formatting, I did try CHKDSK /F when formatted as NTFS via Windows. Format went fine - but CHKDSK took 48+ hours, so I dont think I'm gonna trust the device any longer.
-- Espi On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 1:49 PM, Ben Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > >
