HDD Problem

[DeQuevedo]

Hi!

My HDD on the Miggy is slowly coming down, it has some read errors in the Sys partition.

Since, that, Tehre is a way to mark the defective clusters and keep the HD running for a few time more (I don't hae money enough for a new HD at the moment)

[amigamad]

I would back it up and look for a cheap secondhand drive from ebay it will only wear more and die .

[JaXanim]

@DeQuevedo

I have the same trouble with one of my drives. Lots of bad sectors, causing lots of boot up problems.

As already advised, make a backup copy of all the important stuff. Next, go into Aminet and search for a piece of freeware called 'WorseFormat'.

I found it solved all my bad sector troubles and lets me continue using the drive. How long for? Who knows?

Cheers.

JaXanim
http://waveguide.v21hosting.co.uk

Use WorseFormat to reformat the drive. It will identify and place all the bad sectors together in a file called 'Bad' or something similar.

[chris]

If you have an old (pre-3.5) version of HDToolBox, you can use this to scan the disk and mark out the bad blocks.  I don't know how effective this is.

Chris

[Ferry]

You can use Quarterback Tools, it creates also a "bad.sectors" file assigned to this bad sectors. The backdraw is that you cannot reorganize this disk nor change its filesystem (i.e., FFS to SFS)

A permanent solution is to add bad sectors through an old HDToolBox from AmigaOS v3.1, but this program not always detects bad sectors correctly (I know because I had this problem with an 2GB IDE HD).

Anyway, I managed to find a solution using both programs, QBTools and HDToolsBox from AOS3.1, and entering the bad blocks manually. If anyone wants it, just ask.

@DeQuevedo

Enviame un mensaje a mi dirección personal (amiga arroba ono punto com) y te enviaré el método que ideé para introducir los sectores defectuosos en el HDToolBox del AOS v3.1. Si frecuentas la lista CasaAmiga, igual lo tienes ya, lo envié alli hace ya algún tiempo.

Saluditos,

Ferrán.