Les Mikesell spake the following on 9/25/2006 2:16 PM: > On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 09:08 -0400, Lamar Owen wrote: > >> Power supply issues can do real damage to the drives, as well. I had a pair >> of 250GB drives that have hard errorred sectors thanks to a power >> supply 'glitching' on me. The drives still work fine otherwise, but they >> have several dozen sectors each that will never be usable. > > Most drive manufacturers have a diagnostic/repair utility that have > a fair chance of fixing that sort of problem. Unfortunately they > tend to only run under windows. > Look for the Ultimate boot disk; http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ It has many manufacturer hard drive utilities, and you just need to be able to boot from CD. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!