Hello all, On a wild hair, I ordered a processor upgrade for my XLR8 carrier card that resides in my S900. My computer had been running flawlessly for at least a year prior. As a strange coincidence, two of my memory modules went bad immediately after installing the processor, and some sectors on my 40 gig EIDE drive went bad.
I picked up a 120 gig 7200 EIDE drive (that is on sale at Staples this week for $99) and transferred most of the data from the 40 gig to the new 120 gig. The sectors that went bad on the 40 were the ones that held more than half of my preference files, so I lost my bookmarks, etc., bummer. Anyway, my question is: Norton SystemWorks, Disk Dr. said it "fixed" the problem with the bad sectors where it could not read the media. I'm assuming it placed some type of fence around the potholes on the drive so nothing will be written there in the future. I re-formatted the drive, but I'm wondering just how safe it is to continue to use this drive. I lost about 20 hours (at least) of my life, trying to resurrect the data on this drive before giving up, and I would rather toss the drive on the heap rather than go through that again. Does anyone have any opinion on whether it's OK to continue to use a drive that "spontaneously" developed bad sectors, or is it more prudent to just chuck it? Thanks, Bob Robeson -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.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/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
