Dead Hard-drive?

Tue Sep 10 04:32:01 2002

If you consistently put Mac OS on the drive before installing YDL, it 
might be that the partition(s) used by YDL occupies an area with some 
damage that is not visible to the Mac OS, which resides on its own 
partition. This would mean that the drive is indeed bad. If there is a 
utility that can test the drive on a lower level (disregarding partitioning 
and file sytems) this could possibly identify the nature of the problem.

Regards
/Rickard

On 10 Sep 2002 at 15:12, Mussadique Suleiman wrote:

> Dear All,
> 
> Thanks for reading this e-mail,
> 
> I have a Powerbook G3 (Pismo) and I was running YDL 2.2 on it when one
> day it would boot up saying that there were errors on the hard disk and
> that I had to fsck it manually. So I did - after a whole day of
> fsck-ing, the thing decided to boot up so I quickly got all the
> important files out through FTP onto another workstation. 
> 
> Then, I proceeded to install YDL 2.3 (a chance to upgrade).
> The MacOS 9 install went fine, then the YDL 2.3 install would:
> 
> 1) Hang when formatting the drive
> - I am aware of the bug in the installer - this is not the case because
> I defined the partitions without deleting any.
> 	
> 2) Format completes (too quickly) and installs of packages would hang
> 	
> So, I tried reinstalling YDL 2.2 instead and it would refuse to boot
> giving a kernel panic about accessing a bad area.
> 
> Out of curiosity, I booted MacOS 9 and it was fine.
> 
> Could it be that MacOS 9 installed fine because it does not care if the
> hard drive is on it's death bed? Is the install problem with YDL 2.2
> caused by an almost dead drive? ( It installed extremely smoothly when I
> first installed it)
> 
> Anyone with any ideas? I would appreciate if anyone knows what is going
> on. I dont want to buy a new hard-drive unless my current one is truly
> dead.
> 
> Thanks for taking the time to read this,
> 
> Mussadique 
> 
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