Finally, with the floppy still in, I chose initialize with no options, and once again that worked. I copied my stuff back onto a partition and everything is running fine, and most notably, no clicking sounds. My guess is that the zero out earlier did work, since things feel pretty snappy. But should I be concerned there is some sort of fatal physical flaw with the drive? And what is the difference between low-level and zero-out formatting? Why couldn't the external drive choose the lowe-level? Are you supposed to only choose one?
the filestructure can be damaged on one partition so bad that it will result in theese clicking sounds, trying to read what is broken, it can be a physically bad disk, and my experience is that it will not be completely gone until you reformat the whole of the drive and not just one or two partitions, you need to move your data to another disk for safe keepin, otherwise you will have problems in the future, a bad prambattery can also lead to that broken filestructure, if you haven't already get another disk and move all your precious stuff to that one. Then writes zeros on the entire disk - not just initialize one single partition of that drive. If you have multiple disks a physical problem on one of them can create bad filestructures on all your other disks aswell. Diskwarrior can fix problems that other applications can not see or fix, try to get a copy of that aswell, and another disk - they should be almost for free by now. I paid about 75 $ for a 40 gb ide, and that one was also faster than the old ones.
Kenta
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