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| Newsgroups | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage, comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage, alt.comp.periphs.hdd |
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| From | Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> |
| Subject | A bad sector checker program in Macs? |
| Organization | An Ant Farm |
| Date | 2017-02-21 01:49 -0800 |
| Message-ID | <sLWdnU4yfpPfkDHFnZ2dnUU7-UednZ2d@earthlink.com> (permalink) |
Cross-posted to 3 groups.
Hello.
Does anyone know of a free program that can check for bad sectors in
Macs (e.g., MacBook Pro from early 2008 [4,1]) without losing datas? I
don't care if it runs in or outside of Mac OS X (currently
v10.5.8/Leopard installed). Booting from USB/discs is fine too. I was
hoping Mac OS X came with badsect command since it is based on FreeBSD
as shown in http://www.manpages.info/macosx/badsect.8.html, but it
doesn't unless I missed something. Also, Disk Utility doesn't do it. :(
Thank you in advance. :)
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A bad sector checker program in Macs? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2017-02-21 01:49 -0800
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