Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!spool.mu.edu!agate!ucbvax!gnh-starport.cts.com!whitewolf From: whitewolf@gnh-starport.cts.com (Tae Song) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: HARDDISK BLUE Message-ID: Date: 9 Jun 91 08:28:49 GMT Article-I.D.: crash.m0jmKwL-0000fYC Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 28 |Finally, my harddisk crashed. Ok, this is my first harddisk, just bought |it in less than a month, and have no bad block in 38 MB (8 MB and 30 |MB partitions). The harddisk have no problems surviving 4 optimizations |using ProSel (each partitions twice), and it have never given me any |strange behaviours. Your problem sounds extremely fimilar. I can't say for sure, but I'm 99% sure you have a problem I had incountered recently. My problem... I borrowed a friends HD, because it was having problems booting and I hooked it up to my setup. Anysways, after checking the HD out, I figured out that the partition were incorrectly setup... the second partition had more blocks availible than was actually available... this confuses the SCSI controller and the HD... the HD was pretty screwed. I manage to salvage some of the files, then I repartitioned it and it worked fine. I used RamFASTs utilities to repartition it, but if you don't have one, use the Advanced Disk Utilities on the System.Tools disk. I don't know what program he used to partition the HD, but it was not done correctly. You might have a virus for all I know, but I'm pretty sure this will solve your problems. BTW, use the latest ADU... it is v1.1 or higher, I think. Tell me if this solves your problem. INET: whitewolf@gnh-starport.cts.com UUCP: crash!gnh-starport!whitewolf ARPA: crash!gnh-starport!whitewolf@nosc.mil