Originally Posted by HailAntonLaVey
Let me see,mmmmm NO.I dont believe with all due respect what smurf stated will more in all truth.I can remember at the begining of this year i had a bit of the same problem as Afro is had.My partition was a bit fucked,and i merely transfered it to my new drive,then formatted my old one to use has a slave.Now as for you Afro im glad you found out the hard way that the software you use is shit for the most part,Yes even the "god" of software Norton Ghost doesnt work.In truth there truly isnt any software persay that can fix what you have,its all about hardware.Again i believe the safest way is to buy or rent a USB hard drive,so you can mirror your partition to the USB drive and then clean format your current drive.Of course to transfer back.All the while,what you said is in fact true,depending on who your current drive is made by,it can well fuck you over many times over.Not to mention you can promise yourself of data security.Formatting is formatting,at times yes the theory you stated can work,yet only to an extent.Considering how you have mp3 files,that is classified as a different type of data.Therefore you cant be sure.What are the spec. on your drive.Tell then adieu