Yeah it says 160 bad blocks :-( And it's about 6 months past the end of the 3 year warranty :-( It still amazes me how well the warranty timing circuity works... ;-) Thanks all that answered. I just spent my $100 on a 10,000rpm 18G drive. On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Bill Mills-Curran wrote:
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Karl Hiramoto wrote:
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One of my out of warranty drives died. (bad sectors)
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Would "e2fsck -c <partition>" help to save your current drive?
Bill
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