From: porsupah	Date: September 1st, 2006 09:19 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Ugh. My sympathies - I went through the same fun in the Spring, with some vast number of errors, probably the result of many static zaps at the last office. :-P As you've probably found out, bad sectors are normally mapped out automatically and transparently by the IDE controller, but only up to a small number - the only solution is to reformat the drive using a "write zeros" option, forcing the reconstruction of the drive's bad sector table. (Eventually, I wouldn't mind replacing the drive, but it's a 120GB model, and it still seems like we're stuck at the 160GB for now, which wouldn't be much of an improvement)

I'd very much like to see something like TechTool Pro and/or DiskWarrior included with Leopard. Recovery tools aren't something you want to have to try discovering and obtaining when you've just had a bad corruption. (And neither utility is exactly cheap)