A long time ago before I had $ and HDD's was expencive what I did was to format the drive and when it get's to a surtan % it would fail. I then enter HD Toolbox and make 2 partisions and create a blank space roughly to where the % indicated errors. And start formatting the first and seccond partision. If failing one just entered HD toolbox and moved the blank space a bit. It was a trial and error thing and you ended up losing about 10% of the diskspace if you weren't to sitt there all day.
It worked and I was major happy with my accivement. All was well and fine untill a few days later where the disk gave new blocks with errors. Same procedure as above though now with 3 partisions was made and it again worked... for almost a month before the 3rd error occure. By then I realiced:
1. 120Mb disk isn't suited for 4 partision
2. My time could be better spent then repartision over and over
3. My data was more valuable than the price of a new disk
Buttom line is, at the first sign of disk mallfunction, due to price of HDD's these days, get a new one and salvage as much as possible for the old disk becuase it's on it's last legs and dataloss will happen... but again that's why we all make backups right? ;-)
