Re: Bothersome HD.

[Al Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

you need to scandisk it first, to see where the errors are. If they're
located in one (geographically) close area, then okay, use the drive, if
not, don't bother- it's shafted :(. I believe fsck & co also have a scan
option to scan the media (this is what you want to do), and the program
'badblocks' (IIRC) and associated tools is something else you will want to
check out. 

BTW, I don't suppose the drive had 'parked' when you dropped it? If not
(and quite often they don't automatically), that'll be what caused any
damage more likely than not. That, or grease or something coming off the
spindle. BTW, don't low-level format it, even if you have the tools to do
so.

Cheers,

Alex.


On Sun, 2 Apr 2000, Barrie Bremner wrote:

> 
>  I`ve been quite stupid.
> 
>  I dropped a 6Gb drive on the floor the other day. Now it looks like
> there *might* be a few errors on the drive.
> 
>  Strange thing is, the drive will take Linux happily (first time it
> wasn`t happy, but it`s OK now), but the Winblows 98 setup problem, err,
> program hangs on the format.
> 
>  I wouldn`t bother with Windoze any more, however this machine is going
> to my folks.
> 
>  Anyone got any ideas how to format this drive so that any badblocks are
> ignored and I can use the damned beast again?
> 
>  Cheers.
> 
>  Baz.
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