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check bad sectors?

pickarooney · 2006-07-11 07:24:28

Is there a good tool for checking/fixing bad sectors on hard drives? I'm running Ubuntu at the moment and am having trouble copying from data DVDs to HD - freezes, I/O error messages flying up the screen etc. The disks themselves work fine on another (Windows) machine.

11-07-2006 8:24am

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pickarooney

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Is there a good tool for checking/fixing bad sectors on hard drives? I'm running Ubuntu at the moment and am having trouble copying from data DVDs to HD - freezes, I/O error messages flying up the screen etc. The disks themselves work fine on another (Windows) machine.

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#2 11-07-2006 8:35am

dahamsta

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Google for badblocks.

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#3 11-07-2006 9:17am

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The disks themselves work fine on another (Windows) machine

Does the board you are running ubuntu on have a VIA chipset?

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#4 20-07-2006 9:53am

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Ken Shabby wrote:

Google for badblocks.

Wow, google can do everything these days!

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#5 22-07-2006 12:28am

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On BSD there is "fsck". I assume its on linux though its been years since I used linux.

osmethod

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#6 23-07-2006 2:42am

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Make sure you don't use fsck on a mounted filesystem, can do untold damage...

From experience

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