I don't think he said (or meant) that it physically damaged
the hard drive, just that the file system thought the drive was
reporting "something" was bad...

I installed a program (driver?) years ago that was SOOO bad
at writing to the hard drive that it actually made it chatter like a
woodpecker right away.
(Very similar to the clicking sound a drive makes when it will
not initialize -- spins up, chatters, and then shuts itself down..)

I went into safemode and got rid of that program real quick.
This was when 8.4G drives first came out, and THAT drive is
still working perfectly. You have to "see" this to believe it...

I have had programs that would write filenames with illegal
characters to a HD (usually as part of a "crash"), and then
nothing short of a miracle (or a disk editor) would erase those files...

Really bad software can (and does) cause problems that can
"look" really bad...

                                                   Rick Glazier

----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Weagant"
> How can device drivers or programs
physically damage a hard drive??

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