[iyonix-support] Re: Formatting hard drive
- From: george <george.greenfield@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: iyonix-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 09:02:31 +0100
In message <4E9D30AB.2030402@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
"David J. Ruck" <druck@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 16/10/2011 20:40, george wrote:
>> In message<7dd7ac2352.martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Martin Wuerthner<lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>> The question is why you want to reformat your main hard disc in the
>>> first place. Are you certain that this is required?
>>
>> Not certain, no: but *Verify gives 32 x 'Disc error 13' addresses.
>> Apart from error messages when attempting to save to these locations,
>> the hard drive works reliably; however it is 6 years old. Before
>> replacing it I thought it might be worth attempting to reformat to see
>> if that cured the disc errors.
>
> NO IT WONT! Replace immediately you get disc errors, you can no longer
> trust this drive, as it will continue to loose sectors and may fail
> catastrophically at any time.
>
[snip]
Well, the disc errors started about 2 years ago, so the drive hasn't
done badly to get this far, in daily use :-o. That said, I'll follow
your advice, for which many thanks.
George
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