From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 7 01:00:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA21751 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 7 Aug 1998 01:00:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from vanessa.eliuk.org (pme55.sunshine.net [209.17.178.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA21630 for ; Fri, 7 Aug 1998 01:00:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kevin_eliuk@sunshine.net) Received: from localhost (cagey@localhost) by vanessa.eliuk.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA01666; Fri, 7 Aug 1998 00:59:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cagey@vanessa.eliuk.org) Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1998 00:59:06 -0700 (PDT) From: "Kevin G. Eliuk" Reply-To: "Kevin G. Eliuk" To: Evren Yurtesen cc: Doug White , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bad sector In-Reply-To: <35CA24E8.72E6984@turkey.ispro.net.tr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 7 Aug 1998, Evren Yurtesen wrote: => hello, => well I am not that rich yet...I am just a student... => so I can't install freebsd on this disk? => eh then I would install M$ NT => it does not have this kind of problem... => hehehe just kidding... => but I am sure that it does not have this kind of problem... => because I have already installed M$95 and 98 and they were just fine... => I guess I will try freebsd again... I would check out your HD manufacturer's site. Maxtor has a suite of programs that allowed me to do a Low level format to there factory specs. I understand that WD also has something similar. I reduced my number of bad sectors to a (yes I need a new drive) managable sum, and haven't had any more pop up since :-) YMMV PS. Hope you can do a backup. Regards, Kevin G. Eliuk Discover Rock Solid, Discover FreeBSD | http://www.FreeBSD.Org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message