Re: !-> Bad blocks: need advice

[johns@pro-freedom.van.wa.us (John Sparkman)]

In <1994Oct11.193346.74635@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
skohns@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Steve) writes:

>Hi-
>(bad blocks & other probs -- hard drive)
>Lately, I've been having some trouble with the HD.  Just about a week ago,
>when I first bought the computer, I started noticing some problems.
>The errors said that there were errors on on of my paritions, and "please move
>data from this drive."  I'm familiar with how to solve drive problems on a PC,
>but am admittedly lost here.
>For background, I have an Apple //gs, System 6.0, boots to finder, and an AE
>Vulcan 40MB harddrive.
>What should I do at this point?  There don't seem to be errors on the other 
>partitions.  Should I move the AE1 data (on the bad block partition) to one of
>the others?  Will this create more problems?
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Run Mr. Fixit on the vulcan drive and if you find "block in use, file
skipped", you are destined to reformat.  Also if you re-format the 40, make a
32meg and an 8meg.  The 8meg will give you enough room to install GSOS and
make it the boot partition, and leave you room for utils, etc.  Then the
32meg will be your main file storage.  I have a vulcan, and it has been a
pain.  Paid way to much for it just to have an internal, and could have
bought several scsi drives for what I paid for it.  Oh well, live and learn.

John

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