Hard Drive Questions

[bob]

Hi,
Recently in a previous post I asked if you
format a disk, but it freezes in the middle, and you stop
it, then you restart and format it again, does it damage
anything? Someone responded and said No. But if it
freezes in the middle the disk prolly has bad sectors that
may or may not be marked bad so you can use it.

Does you mean that if it freezes it would cause permanent
physical bad sectors, or it just has bad sectors in the
file table and after formating it again successfully, it
will be fine?
Thanks

 

[bob]

Hi,
Its an IPod. I've recently beenn having a problem with
its software. I used the restore utility that it came
with to format it. It never freezes in the middle of the
Format itself I don't think, its just it needs to restart
the IPod after formatting to flash the firmware but
sometimes it can't and I was worried that it would effect
the format, and mayeb the disk. I was able to
successfully do it though. The IPod has so many problems
with mounting and unmounting on a Windows computer. Then
I was having problems with uploading songs to it, but as
of now I think it only happening when I had this other
program open.