Hi fellow mac useres,

I have a prob, on one of my older machines a PM6100/66, I ran Norton DD on it and it said I had unrecoverable problems , so I re-installed the system and did the usual stuff and it went away, then I started having all sorts of error (ESP Type2) {im running 7.6.1 BTW} , so I ran DD again and this time it check the problems anf fixed it, Sooo after that I rand Speed disk to check my frag and I see a whole lot of black spot on the drive (color image) marked " ? " and some are marked " ? orphan 8565865" and yadda yadda yadda, and I keep noticeing my drive space flucutuated, At first I didn't notice it becasue I was running VM alot, But I seem to lose space quite ab bit esp after a crash, like if im dling a MP3, it'll lock up hard, I'll reboot, the MP3 will be not visible anywhere on the drive, but I lost like a couple megs. It's very stange and troubling, I ran disinfectant it crashed a couple of thime then checked out ok. I've re-installed 7.6.1 but it keeps coming back... Esp the "?" mystery frags on my disk. Are there jsut possibly bad segments (permanent on my disk ) or could this be something else... ALso the type 2 error are driving me bonkers, I've owned this machine since like 95 been runnig sevensix for a while but it has never been this bad!!!!Please help???


MAGNETO

well yes you have bad blocks, i'd say

and usually Norton can fix these but someone else recently had an issue with bad blocks and they were 'fixed' by Norton but came back... problem was fixed (at least for now) by reinitializing the HD

if you have not initialized your HD in a while, i'd do so now and use the 'zero data' option

also, have you heard of DiskWarrior? not that it will fix this issue but it is a great HD util: www.alsoft.com

oh, and this post belongs in older macs and clones forum... transferring this post there

[This message has been edited by wlonh (edited 05-21-2000).]