Re:Byrd
Actually it was 12 bad blocks. it's done and the HDD is now working. I kept having "resource busy" errors, and then when I reset the PRAM, all the problems went away. I formated the drive, and when I tested the drive with TechTool Pro, there were no bad blocks. I wiped the drive 7x with the "Zero Data" option under Disk Utility. It worked great. The blocks weren't all in one area. So I have a feeling it's been like that for a while. It's the original drive.
To make sure formatting wasn't a fluke, I restarted the machine and formatted it again. I then shut it down, started up and formatted as MBR and NTFS FS (I have NTFS-3G installed in my powerbook) and it worked, formatted as GPT and HFS+(J) and that went fine. Back to the APT HFS+(J) and it works now.
The owners of the iMac (I sold the iMac to them) lost their OS X discs, and right now I have created a recovery partition and am copying over the disk image of 10.5 to that partition. They can then reinstall with that.
So I am trying to create a simple-as-possible system to avoid further issues.
The drive should be fine. It is natural to get bad blocks over the course of the lifetime of the HDD. It's when you can't get rid of them or they are all in one area that you have to worry. that indicates physical damge. In the whole drive, 12 bad blocks don't indicate hardware issues, it's just that they went bad. It's expected of a hard drive over the life time. As long as you can mark them off and you don't have issues with the drive reading/writing after they are marked off, it will be fine
Actually it was 12 bad blocks. it's done and the HDD is now working. I kept having "resource busy" errors, and then when I reset the PRAM, all the problems went away. I formated the drive, and when I tested the drive with TechTool Pro, there were no bad blocks. I wiped the drive 7x with the "Zero Data" option under Disk Utility. It worked great. The blocks weren't all in one area. So I have a feeling it's been like that for a while. It's the original drive.
To make sure formatting wasn't a fluke, I restarted the machine and formatted it again. I then shut it down, started up and formatted as MBR and NTFS FS (I have NTFS-3G installed in my powerbook) and it worked, formatted as GPT and HFS+(J) and that went fine. Back to the APT HFS+(J) and it works now.
The owners of the iMac (I sold the iMac to them) lost their OS X discs, and right now I have created a recovery partition and am copying over the disk image of 10.5 to that partition. They can then reinstall with that.
So I am trying to create a simple-as-possible system to avoid further issues.
The drive should be fine. It is natural to get bad blocks over the course of the lifetime of the HDD. It's when you can't get rid of them or they are all in one area that you have to worry. that indicates physical damge. In the whole drive, 12 bad blocks don't indicate hardware issues, it's just that they went bad. It's expected of a hard drive over the life time. As long as you can mark them off and you don't have issues with the drive reading/writing after they are marked off, it will be fine