On 12/3/03 6:49 am, "David Townend" wrote: > Hi List, > Just re-formatted a Firewire La Cie (Silver metallic trendy case - 80GB) > Hardrive using the latest version of LaCie's Hard Drive Software > SilverLining Pro V6.4.6a. I did the "full service" with Silverlining - > leaving it chugging away overnight - took about 6 hours ! > Anyway, this morning ran Norton on it to double-check and Norton is telling > me there is a "Major Error" with the message "The partition map block count > is incorrect".
I used to own a LaCie drive (a few years ago) and the instructions with the drive were so crap, that I thought I had to use Silverlining to format it. N you don't. You can use virtually any formatting software. Personally ever since I found that out, I've used MacOS's own formatting utility. It works and never seems to give the same problems that many people have. The only advantage to using a third party formatting, is a possible speed boost (check BareFeats site) However I seem to remember its so small as to not really be worth the agro. Also If you're running OSX. Then, I'm pretty sure that most of the tech sites would say don't use Norton. It was once a great program (hell I remember the first version on the first ever IBM PC, I loved it). But it doesn't do anything good on a Mac running OSX. Check MacFixIt for more info on this. I'd suggest reformatting with the HD Utility in OS9/OSX (if of course you're on a Mac), then see how it goes. If you want to check your disk with anything, use the HD Utility again. Check First Aid and Permissions. If you want third party, you can't beat Disk Warrior for what it does. Regards Paul -- Paul Tansley Fashion & Beauty Photography London +44 (0) 7973 669584 http://www.paultansley.com =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
