Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!ucbvax!pro-sol.cts.com!lhaider From: lhaider@pro-sol.cts.com (Lawrence Haider) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Sider Woes! Message-ID: <8908090913.AA04940@trout.nosc.mil> Date: 9 Aug 89 04:01:23 GMT Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 17 --> My Sider has decided to start having disk errors. I ran Mr. Fixit, and it found 100+ bad blocks. Ok...that's fine. But..over the past three days, the errors have increased. I ran Mr. Fixit again and it found 100+ MORE bad blocks! At the rate that this is going, my HD will be full of bad block errors in a couple months. I need help! Any suggestions? +============================================================================+ Yep. Try formatting the hard drive, then zeroing it. I had the same problem crop up on a number of my 3.5" disks and it worked every time! I know its not exactly the same thing, but I doubt that the bad blocks are caused by physical destruction of the drive surface. Oh, yes, reformat after zeroing and see how it works :) Anyone else have a less convoluted solution? Laer lhaider@pro-sol