[Ti] Bad Block

[Sam Moussly]

Lalely i have been having serious problems with my laptops hard drive. 
I hope it can be solved.

My OS froze a while back while installing a security updates. After 
waiting for a while, I had to restart. That led for the OS not to boot 
anymore. I tried disk utility and indicated that it can not be 
repaired.

Luckily I had a back up of my OS on my external HD. I reinstalled 
everything and things were runing fine for a few days, till again it 
froze, had to restart, and the OS wouldn't load anymore.

I then tried running TechTool Pro 4.0 to see if the HD is ok. Protools 
shows that everything is fine, except for some bad sectors? in the HD 
that needed to be fixed. It recommended to zero out the HD and 
reinstall. I zeroed the HD using Disk Utility and reinstalled my backed 
up OS onto my laptop HD using Retrospect.

Same thing happened again when I tried installing the security updates 
:/

I can't seem to get rid of that bad block. I also have tried 
DiskWarrior to no avail. Anyone can recommend any ideas on how to solve 
this? or am I out of luck and have to buy a new HD?


Just a side note, I did drop my PB a few months back in which i had to 
replace my DVD burner. Everything else was running flawlessly till this 
happened 2 weeks ago.


Thanks.

Sam
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OS 10.3.5
Tibook G4 867 MHz,
1GB RAM, 32MB Video,
60GB HD, 250GB External HD
30GB iPod
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