On Jun 30, 2005, at 1:40 PM, BigMomma wrote:
Hi All.
I am having trouble with my 60G IDE drive. It tells me that three
partitions are unreadable and asks if I want to initialize them.
Should I erase them or initialize them? What is the difference? Of
course I am using an S900 with a G4 upgrade and 600+ megs of ram.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Hi Jacqueline-
If you have files that you want to keep on those partitions- don't
erase/initialize them. Even if you have no access right now, you
might be able to fix the partitions with DiskWarrior. (Note also that
unless you have special disk repair software, initializing will erase
ALL the partitions of that disk.)
DW is not a free application but very well worth its cost. It has
saved me many times over the years. If one of your partitions of the
IDE drive is accessible, then it sounds like the kind of problem that
DW can fix. On the other hand you might be having a disk hardware
problem and can try fixing that. What OS are you running? ...and do
you have access to one or more of the partitions on the IDE drive?
dan_A
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