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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Is it possible to mark or segregate bad blocks on HDD?
Hello I want to know if is it possible to mark bad blocks on HDD for OS to not use them. I don't want to save data written on this blocks, just want to get rid of them.
I found some article where ...
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How can I intentionally break/corrupt a sector on an SD card?
I need to test the resilience of some read/write code for some embedded hardware. How might I sacrifice a few SD cards and break several known sectors for a controlled study?
The only thing I can ...
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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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Do bad clusters on modern (as of 2020) SSD indicate hardware failure?
I've got a Samsung 970 Evo 2TB SSD that has been working perfectly for a year and a half, under a mostly-read load.
Recently, while updating Windows to the 2004 release, the OS got stuck in the ...
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How likely is the last block of a drive to be a bad sector?
This is a follow-up question to this one, where zeroing the disk with dd would give me an error towards the very end of the drive.
I then set about trying to determine whether this was a bad sector, ...
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Tool to read all blocks from HDD and write it back
I need tool to read each sector(block) from HDD and write it back to same HDD.
Disk is big and so it is not possible to use image creation tools (backup/restore).
Purpose of it - to avoid/resolve ...
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Badblocks reports "weird value (4294967295) in do_write" when writing patterns
This is the second time that I'm receiving this error running badblocks, approximately 2 years apart from the last time, and the vast majority of factors from hardware (cables, etc.) to software (the ...
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badblocks vs. SMART Extended Self Test
How does a full read/write surface scan by 'badblocks' differ from the built in SMART Extended self test?
It seems like they are both full surface scans, so why does it take badblocks -vws 3 days to ...
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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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Mark bad blocks as unusable on NTFS using linux
one of my laptops are using windows and after a certain impact it doesn't boots up anymore, I figured the disk might've been damaged. So I've launced live Kali linux and scanned it with badblocks (...
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How to quickly format a HDD with bad sectors (in linux)?
I have a SATA HDD, which has bad sectors. I do not need the data, and need to format the HDD to create a fresh device.
I tried to repair the HDD problem with commands like
fsck.ext4 -p /dev/sda1
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Any way to recover a file with bad blocks (CRC error in Windows)?
What I see is this:
Windows complains when reading a file because the CRC for it mis-matches its calculated CRC.
This means NTFS has a CRC for the file.
I expect the offending block/sector can be ...
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what physical disk is referenced by Event 7, Disk error "The device, \Device\Harddisk2\DR2, has a bad block." [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I determine which HD is involved in the Event Viewer?
NOT a duplicate
well, maybe the general premise is a duplicate, but the linked question is not answered, only has ...
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What happens to sectors marked as bad when HDD is repartitioned? [duplicate]
If I have an HDD with some bad sectors and I format the disk (from Windows) or re-partition the disk, will bad sectors still be marked as bad?
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Bad sectors vs spare/reserve sectors and how the OS and disk interpret them
From what I understand, there are two fundamental ways sectors are marked bad:
OS performs IO read/write instruction. The sector is replaced with a spare and marked bad.
Disk's low-level instructions ...
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