I just got an external USB dock, into which I can plug a bare SATA hard drive and use it as an external drive on my Mac. I popped the two 750GB drives out of my old PC. They had been formatted NTFS and run as a RAID 0 array. Each drive has a problem. I've used other SATA drives and they're fine, so the issue is not with the dock. These drives are Samsung Spinpoints btw.
One drive formatted fine in OS X as HFS+. But when I wrote more than about 20GB of data to it, it stopped writing and I could see that copying files was 'stuck'. I guess the drive must have bad sectors on it (it played up and made funny clicking noises when it was in the PC). Is there some kind of repair utility that will do a deep low level format of the drive and tell it to ignore the bad sectors? Anything else I can do, or should I junk this drive?
The other drive seems fine, but will not format in HFS+. It formats in FAT32 in OS X, and I've also formatted the entire drive in NTFS in Windows via VMWare. But trying to format it as HFS+ ie "Mac OS Extended" via the Disk Utility just gives the error "File system formatter failed". I'm sure this drive is fine, so is there some other utility or something that I use to format it with the OS X file system?
Many thanks in advance for advice!
One drive formatted fine in OS X as HFS+. But when I wrote more than about 20GB of data to it, it stopped writing and I could see that copying files was 'stuck'. I guess the drive must have bad sectors on it (it played up and made funny clicking noises when it was in the PC). Is there some kind of repair utility that will do a deep low level format of the drive and tell it to ignore the bad sectors? Anything else I can do, or should I junk this drive?
The other drive seems fine, but will not format in HFS+. It formats in FAT32 in OS X, and I've also formatted the entire drive in NTFS in Windows via VMWare. But trying to format it as HFS+ ie "Mac OS Extended" via the Disk Utility just gives the error "File system formatter failed". I'm sure this drive is fine, so is there some other utility or something that I use to format it with the OS X file system?
Many thanks in advance for advice!