Drive Genius has a “Scan” tool that destructively writes and reads every block
on a drive, and will map all the bad blocks out (assuming any spares are still
left). This may or may not solve your problem, depending on what your hardware
problem actually is.
The other bad news is that the las
So my external 500 GB drive is giving me I/O errors. I'd like some advice,
other than "throw it away".
In the past, when I had drives directly attached inside the computer, I could
do a low-level format, and generally had good luck letting that solve errors.
This is a USB drive. I don't know ho
> On Mar 27, 2015, at 21:33, Michael wrote:
>
> Is there a way to mount a sparse bundle as read only?
>
> keybounceMBP:~ michael$ mount -o ro /dev/disk3s2
> mount: /dev/disk3s2: unknown special file or file system.
> keybounceMBP:~ michael$ mount -o ro /Volumes/Isolated\ old\ stuff/
> mount: /V
