Questions tagged [bad-blocks]
A bad block (or sector) is essentially a block that returns an error rather than the data up on reading it.
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What is AdBlock blocking on my website?
While reading my webpage I noticed that AdBlock was blocking one element. I certainly don't have any ads. Here's the entire source:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>...
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mkfs.ext4 and mkfs.vfat with same badblock file give me different space
I have a 256GB pendrive with bad sectors, and I get them with this command:
sudo badblocks -wsvf -o 256GB.txt /dev/sdc
But when I use this file (256GB.txt) to format the pendrive I get different ...
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SMART: Is my HDD about to get bad sectors and corrupted data?
I am running gsmartcontrol in Linux.
I ran an extended SMART test. The Health Self-Assessment test returned a value of 'PASSED'. However I am concerned about the possibility of any bad sectors and ...
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How do you securely erase remapped bad sectors on HDD in Linux?
I have run badblocks on my HDD in Linux. No badblocks were found. However some bad sectors may have been previously detected and remapped; if this is the case, the badblocks test would not have found ...
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How long would badblocks take on a 40GB disk? How do I optimize the whole procedure?
I am running badblocks on a 40GB partition checking for errors.It hasn't responded for hours now!
Went through some answers related to this and someone suggested to increase the -c parameter's value ...
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How do Zero-Fill, Full Format, and CHKDSK fix bad sectors?
I use HD Tune pro error scan to find problems with mechanical hard drives. However, I am confused as to weather these are fixable problems or not. Please clarify weather my statements are accurate:
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Writing to bad sector makes every other operation fail afterwards
My hard drive has a few bad blocks, so I'm trying to get a list of them all in order to bypass them when creating a new ext4 filesystem, like this:
badblocks -wsv -o badblocks_sdf.txt /dev/sdf
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Can data patterns on HDD cause corruption?
I am really baffled that one of my movie files doesn't seem to like Samsung HDDs and I was wondering if certain data patterns can cause or at least favor data corruption over time.
It first started ...
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Is there a good way to scan a drive for bad blocks in the background?
I just got a QNAP TS-251, an NAS that runs Linux plus the manufacturer's tools. One of the setup options is to run a bad block scan, but on a pair of 4 TB drives that might take a really long time to ...
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Retrieve data from a mountable partition refusing `cp` but allowing `dd`
Recently, my internal drive failed after a manual reboot and I would like to retrieve the data before changing it. My computer is a Macbook Pro mid-2012 and the drive is formatted as HFS+. (From my ...
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New external USB HDD cannot copy big files and develops bad blocks
I had an issue with external HDD not being able copy out big files but thought it was due to the bad blocks that they had (here is that question).
But now I have brand new 5Tb that I am trying to use ...
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Input/output error when reading disk
I did a forced shutdown after my computer froze (on Ubuntu). After turning back on I found a "attempt to read or write outside of disk hd0" error, after choosing Ubuntu on GRUB.
I haven then ...
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Is it a hardware failure to have badblocks on HDD
My PC was running slow , I thought that there may be some problem with the hard disk , so I ran badblocks and the process was running for the last 263 hours before I accidentally interrupted it. It ...
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Does it worth to reinstall Windows 7 in the same partition after bad sectors found by CHKDSK in it?
I've executed CHKDSK with both "Automatically fix filesystem errors" and "Scan for and attempt recovery bad sectors" options selected on a system partition of a clean Windows 7 installation.
Wininit ...
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Does having some Bad Sectors indicate that the drive will crash soon?
I have a Hitachi HTS723232L9SA62 320Gb 7200RPM HDD. I checked the SMART status and there are 3 bad sectors, totaling 1.5MB. This means that approximately 0.00046875% of my hard drive has gone bad.
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