Problems vith Hard disk 2

Hallo!
As Barry Menphill knows well I had problems with an hard disk.
DiskWarrior recovered and I backed up (correct?) all my files (by luck!)
but I can't see the disk on desktop, DiskWarrior can't install new directories and
I can't initialize the disk with Disk Utility,
So:
is this disk good just for trash?
Is there an enough powerful application to inizialize the disk?
Do you think it's good have different systems in different hard disks?
Is Classic useful or just something creating confusion?
What is sense of life? (oops, I want too much!)
Sorry for my English
Thanks

Hi Franko
I can't help you with the sense, or meaning, of life, I'm afraid - perhaps more philosophical Apple users can chip in there...!
As for your hard drive, if it has had a failure, you should not rely on it for anything. All hard drives have a limited lifespan (after all, they are spinning thousands of times a minute for years), and once they die, that's it. And drives are getting cheaper all the time - so I would recommend you invest in a new one and trash this one.
Having different systems on different drives can be good, since it gives you an alternative if one drive fails. In fact, several backup utilities (eg Retrospect, Super Duper) give you the option of cloning a hard drive - which will give you an exact copy of your system on another drive. Or, different applications may have different system requirements - for example, I use a program called Avid Xpress which will not run on Tiger 10.4.7 or newer, so I have one system at 10.4.6 and another at 10.4.9.
Classic is only useful if you have legacy programs which require OS 9 to run.
Hope that helps!
Matt

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