From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 26 08:27:42 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E560E16A41F for ; Mon, 26 Sep 2005 08:27:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from norgaard@locolomo.org) Received: from strange.daemonsecurity.com (62-15-75-74.inversas.jazztel.es [62.15.75.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E0FE43D48 for ; Mon, 26 Sep 2005 08:27:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from norgaard@locolomo.org) Received: from [172.24.8.84] (generic.ATOSORIGIN.ES [212.170.156.200]) by strange.daemonsecurity.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55C8C2F1F6 for ; Mon, 26 Sep 2005 10:27:39 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4337B0F8.4000809@locolomo.org> Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 10:27:36 +0200 From: Erik Norgaard User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050824) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Complete format X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 08:27:43 -0000 Hi, A month ago I started getting problems with a disk, and bought a new one to save as much data as posible. Now, I'd like to try to do a thorough format of the old disk to clear any disk errors and see if this may make it usable. Is there a program that can analyse marking bad sectors unusable and true format the disk? Thanks, Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: www.locolomo.org S/MIME Certificate: www.daemonsecurity.com/ca/8D03551FFCE04F06.crt Subject ID: 9E:AA:18:E6:94:7A:91:44:0A:E4:DD:87:73:7F:4E:82:E7:08:9C:72 Fingerprint: 5B:D5:1E:3E:47:E7:EC:1C:4C:C8:3A:19:CC:AE:14:F5:DF:18:0F:B9