Before you do this I would definitely run Norton from it's CD and see whether it can solve the problem more easily. If it runs into severe problems it will tell you.
Johannes
On 29.08.2003 12:01 Uhr, Dennis W. Manasco wrote
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Johannes,
Normally I would agree with you and would have given this advice if I thought that it would have helped. Indeed, one of the reasons that I did not is that OS X is such a different beast from OS <= 9.x that I would never think to run Norton, or any other disk utility, against my boot disk; I would always either boot from another disk or CD. This may be a paranoid attitude, but until I know far more about OS X I feel that it is a valid precaution.
However, Andrew mentioned bad blocks within his System files.
I went into such detail in discussing Andrew's problem because my experiences with bad blocks on small computers (and large) dating back to the mid seventies has been that bad blocks produce potentially (and, in my experience, usually) the most severe problems that you can have with a computer. If the bad blocks aren't marked and retired then subtle and difficult to trace errors can occur and multiply over time until much of the data on the disk becomes totally unreliable. Sometimes this happens rapidly enough that you can spot it early and user-data is salvageable with little or no loss, but sometimes it happens over a long enough time that multiple program and data files move through the affected area(s). When this happens everything on the disk can become suspect. And then there is the possibility that a catalog extents table has moved through the bad sectors....
This may sound like an overly conservative response to the report of a few bad blocks, but I have seen a number of disks degrade into non-usability, and have traced many of them back to long-term sector corruption problems.
I consider bad blocks to be a worse and more pernicious problem than catastrophic drive or computer failure. With catastrophic problems backups are unaffected and (if you have backed up regularly) little data will be lost. With chronic degradation you may lose everything that isn't on an install CD.
Best wishes,
-=-Dennis
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