Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 11:40:44 +0000 From: "H B" <dn300@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: marking bad blocks on a hard disk drive Message-ID: <BAY1-F126ojYn5VSSFc0000377e@hotmail.com>
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Hello, I saw some info about marking bad sectors on a hard disk at the address "http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2003-July/013737.html" I believe that it is from your organization? I'm having a bit of a problem with my hard disk, very much similar to the situation described by Mr. Andy Farkas. I was just wondering, may I ask for a little advice about something? Mr. Farkas mentioned that after running various formatters and scanners, he identified where the bad sectors were on the disk; what formatters or scanners can be used to do that? Because I've used ScanDisk and Norton's Disk Doctor to scan my drive (20GB, 2 equal partitions: C & D). During scanning, C drive is fine, but D drive, everytime when I scanned, about halfway through, my PC would simply hang. The same thing happens for both software: ScanDisk and Disk Doctor. I would be real appreciative to receive advice on possible solutions. Regards, Jen The text below is the info I found on the Web: ****************************************************************** Andy Farkas andyf at speednet.com.au Thu Jul 24 16:31:13 PDT 2003 Like others have said, your disk is dying and is untrustworthy for holding critical data. But no one has answered your question yet, so I will :) I also have a 8gig drive with bad blocks on it. I only use it on a scratch box for testing -current. I don't trust it at all, and will toss it in the bin as soon as it plays up again. After running various formatters and scanners, I identifyied where the bad sectors were on the disk, around the 6gig mark on mine. The bad section was about 20-30MB long. Knowing this, I can now setup partitions around the bad bit. I created a 5.5 gig partition 1, a 1 gig partition 2 (the bad bits), and 1.5 gig partition 3. Hope that helps. ****************************************************************** _________________________________________________________________ Hot chart ringtones and polyphonics. Go to http://ninemsn.com.au/mobilemania/default.asp
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