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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Bad sdcard report 32DB but has only 2GB wired in, how to detect valid area
I bought a while ago a sdcard that is supposedly 32GB, but after using it for some time, I found that it only has 2GB wired in. If I write past the 2GB limit, the files I read are composed of zero ...
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Rescuing a hdd with bad sectors: dd vs gddrescue
Somewhere on the internets I read that gddrescue is superior to dd at least in terms of being able to distinguish between the amount of disk reads performed on a troubled sector. Is this really the ...
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Bad Block on Virtual Machine (Virtual or Physical Problem?)
I am dealing with a virtual machine that is receiving the following entry in the event log:
TIME OF EVENT: 7/30/2011 3:47:05 PM EVENT LOG: System EVENT
SOURCE: disk EVENT ID: 7 SEVERITY: Error ...
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Can you recover from a backup with bad blocks?
The hard drive in my Macbook recently gave up while using it on the plane (dual prop, lots of vibration unfortunately). I have a backup of its contents from a few weeks ago, but there are files that ...
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View bad blocks on mounted ext2/ext3/ext4 filesystem
I've ran fsck -c on the (unmounted) partition in question a while ago. The process was unattended and results were not stored anywhere (except the bad block inode).
Now I'd like to get bad block ...
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Will my hdd fail?
I'm running badblocks in parallel on 2 identical hard drives. The problem is that /dev/sda has already finished without error the tests but /dev/sdb it at 363353920/488386583 (about 75%) but didn't ...
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Disaster After Removing Two HDD From LaCie RAID 0 Case
This is the second time this has happened. I own a LaCie IDE RAID 0 Enclosure and the RAID went bad. The system gave me a warning that the data could be read from the RAID but that nothing could be ...
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How long does badblocks take on a 1TB drive?
I'm running badblocks (or rather "e2fsck -c") on a 1TB drive and if the progress indicator is any indication (no pun intended), it's going to take almost forever to complete.
Right now it says 0.01% ...
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65537 bad sectors on my 320Gb usb drive. Is it really dead?
After 222 days of usage my external usb drive's S.M.A.R.T. system warned about having too many bad sectors on the disk (65537 reallocated sectors).
I tested it with badblocks -svw and no bad block ...
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