Or at least the hard drive. A while ago I accidentally deleted some files and tried to recover them with an older [3.1] version of Norton. The outcome of which resulted in the partition I ran the Norton on becoming unreadable and demanding to be initialized upon boot. What scared me was that I had never heard the "clicks of death" before [this was the startup partition] so I had to boot from an external drive and nuke the partition. 3 click click clicks.
So I reformmated the partition and everything was fine for weeks. Yesterday I was copying some files from another partition to a 3rd partition---NOT the original one I had troubles with--- and BOTH partitions crashed. I was just moving 6 or so files. Everything vanished from the destination partition, not just the moved files. And then, when I tried to open the partition I was moving from, I once again heard these clicks of death. I ran the Norton again on both partitions, and it said they were bady messed. I did NOT do any of the fixes suggested, suspecting Norton itself might have upset the hard drive. Could an older version of Norton, probably a 68k version, be unable to deal with a Mac OS Extended hard drive? However, the 8.6 disk first aid was saying one partition "appeared to be ok", while saying the other one should be erased and initialized. I ended up initializing both partitions. Problem is, today, one of the partitions STILL is making the click click click when I check for bad blocks using Norton. It is a small partition I use mostly for a scratch disk for photoshop. But does this mean the entire drive is about to die? Everything seems to be running ok, but so it was before this unexpected crash. What to do? I am running 8.6 on this 2.4 IDE drive, in 4 partitions, Mac OS Extended. I would prefer to avoid spending moeny on a new drive if this one can be repaired. But I also do not want a risk complete data loss, or waste time on a dying drive. I am on digest so feel free to email me directly. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.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/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
