Issues reformatting...

Here is my situation...

I believe I had bad sectors on my drive, and while halfway through reformatting, it crashed...

So now, when I boot to the HD, I get the prompt to insert the 2nd Install CD, but it never finishes (because it hits a bad sector). So I want to write Zeros to the drive. and thus I pop in the Tiger install disc...

With the Tiger install disc in my drive, I boot to it, but it gets to the blue screen and locks up.

So I can't finish the install with the original discs, I can't write zeros using a Tiger disc.

Any ideas? I was trying to reformat it using commands in Single-user mode, but my bashing needs some work

It is a 1.67Ghz Powerbook G4.

Thanks in advance!

 

I know the Optical Drive is fine, It was able to read other bootable discs. And yes, I have used 'C' to force disc start-up, also have used 'alt' for the boot selection screen. Also I have 2 tiger discs, and they both do the same thing....they get to the language selection screen and lockup.

I was able to make some progress by using single-user mode to remount the drive as read/write, and cleared a few things so it would stop asking for the 2nd disc...

I was able to get to the initial setup screen, and so I selected to erase & write zeros. It was working fine for a few minutes, then it locked up. And is now @ the same point again.

Seeing how it's a HD issue, I need to find a way to flag the bad sectors so they aren't used by the OS.

If I can't do that, then it's simply time for a new HD.

Thanks.

 

I found a fix...at least until I decide to buy a new HD

I recalled the bad sectors corrupting certain OS components, but not any of my Apps/docs/etc. And thus I ran a scan, and found that the bad sectors were in the beginning of the drive.

So I partitioned the drive into two. the first 13g separated from the rest, and so I proceeded to install the OS on the 2nd partition. All of my apps/docs/etc are installed and everything is running smooth.

Thanks for everyone's input =D

~Luf.