RJT> So I spent some time copying the rest of the contents off to 
 RJT> other drives,  and I'm going to have a go at using those 
 RJT> utilities,  later on,  when I've finished the process.

 BS> Uf :-( That's kinda bad..

 BS> I would never trust that disk anymore if I were you..

 RJT> I'm not too terribly inclined to,  at this point.

Okay.

 RJT> The thing is,  I don't know if the drive itself is 
 RJT> failing,  or if it can be fixed by the appropriate 
 RJT> mfr's utility.  I had one drive that got glitched,  
 RJT> and showed me a few "bad sectors" that gave me some 
 RJT> trouble until I used some utilities to map them out.  

Hmm.. Okay, Harddrives ain't to expensive today, so most people does trash
a disk if it contains bad sectors.

 RJT> And after running the mfr's utility on it everythign 
 RJT> was fine.  This _could_ be a case like that,  what 
 RJT> with the storms and such that we've had a problem with 
 RJT> here recently,  or it could be the drive failing,  I just don't know.

Indeed..

Regards,
Bo


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