Help ! OS3.9 HDD Sector trubbs

[Agafaster]

I recently got round to copying all the games installed on me old (2 .5" 810MB) Hard Disk onto me new (3.5" 19GB) One. All the stuff went into a drawer in my APPS: partition to be placed on a new GAMES: partition. right.
got as far as successfully generating a 2GB partition out of the 14GB of unallocated disk,
and formatted this (GOD that was slow ! I only have an IDEfix'97 board - 2.2MB/s is a tad slow for that capacity !).
I put an Icon there for the new volume, and copied the games over.
came to reboot later, and got "Read Error on block <>" and lost all me stuff !
(incidentally I assumed crap sector, and repartioned a 1GB lump - reformatted, bing ! same error, different block . D'oh !)
Now I would have normally reached straight for DiskSalv, but since this disk is > 4 GB, that wont work -

what do I do ? I want to either re-route around the duff block so the disk validates properly upon boot, or I want to have some software fix the (hopefully) soft error on that block.
Is there an NSD version of Disksalv ?

I am using WB3.9 BB2 on an A1200T with IDEfix'97 board. the disk is on IDE port 0, shared with a 54x CDROM - the setup has been fine 'til now.

I dont wanna have to start the disk from scratch !

[Agafaster]

Piru wrote:
Never ever use regular format, ALWAYS use Quick:

a) normal format is never needed, unless if you suspect HW defect on the harddisk.

ok...youre sure about this ? even for freshly partitioned lumps of unpartitioned disk space ?

b) quickformat is seconds compared to hours with normal format

aha !! absolutely does !

c) some format versions trash RDB/first partitions when they access >4gig area, when using normalformat. Quickformat is safe.

it IS the format that comes with OS3.9 for NSD's isnt it ?

If you really need a working normalformat for >4gig area, get the format tool from aminet. Can't remember the name atm, someone refresh my memory...

ta, I'll have a look.

PS - you forgot to mention Vodka, 3 month long days/nights and excellent Black Metal !!  :-D

[Agafaster]

Cheers me mon !

I'll give it a whirl (pun intended !) tonight and let you know in the morning.

Worth repartitioning before I use the QF ? in case the Nomal one has fsck'ed anything ?

:pint: :hammer: :-D

[Agafaster]

erol,

yes absolutely.

odd that the standard for kilo is 1024 in computer terms, yet the drive mfrs insist on advertising using 1000 ! (actually, I think a manufacturers GB* is 1000*1024*1024 making a 20GB Maxtor actually 19.5GB)

*hmmm - baker's dozen, anybody ? ;-)

I fully understand. I wouldnt have asked if me disk was < 4GB ! (I'd've used Dave Haynie's DiskSalv)