Re: surface scan

2002-09-11 Thread Nick
You are right about Norton, I had Norton Systemworks installed on my Pismo under 9.2 and it crashed my computer all the time and at one point I had to reformat my hard drive lost hours of time and loads of data...It was worse than catching a virus. Since uninstalling it my Pismo has not had a pro

Re: surface scan

2002-09-11 Thread David M Kiely
A bad block isn't the end of the world, and certainly not the end of your drive! Different diagnostic tools give varying results, so run another before doing anything drastic. Not Norton; the word on the street is that it sometimes messes up more than it repairs. Drive 10, the OS X version of Tech

surface scan

2002-09-11 Thread w miller
Do I have to replace the hard drive? TechTool tells me it has a bad block it can't repair and suggests reformatting with all blocks checked. Apple utilities offers zeroing but that's all. Any other ways to handle this before I take out the drive and toss it? Willi -- G-Books is sponsored by