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How can I test the full capacity of an SD card in Linux?
I purchased a 64 GB SD card from eBay. It works fine when I burn an Arch Linux ARM image to it and use it to boot up my Raspberry Pi.
However, when I try to create a single ext4 partition on it to ...
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Write errors on USB pendrives will get reported?
In case there is a write error when writing to a USB pendrive (for example due to a bad sector), should the operating system give me a notice, an error message? And if there is no such error message, ...
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Debugging a badblock case, advice?
Everything started with Windows failures. It was impatiently kicking some BSOD out because of missing dlls (there is a question here, which I basically solved).
I then discovered that the dlls were ...
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HDD with 2047 reallocate sectors - 2047 is limit?
I had found in internet many questions with 2047 reallocate sectors on HDD. Does this mean that this is limit and real count of bad blocks is higher then 2047?
SMART about reallocate sectors - 1 from ...
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What happens after ddrescue?
I'm currently having a close call with a hard lesson!
My 2TB WD Green drive started throwing bad blocks after a year of service. I have recovered all but 82kb of data to an image on a spare 3TB drive ...
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How to make smartd shut up about one particular offline uncorrectable sector?
I have a disk in a two-disk software RAID-1 for which recently an "offline uncorrectable sector" appeared in the SMART status.
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 200 200 000 Old_age ...
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Using `badblocks` on modern disks.
I want to use badblocks to check my HDDs and would appreciate clarification of its operation.
Can someone please explain the best options to use with -b and -c? I have included their definitions ...
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Is badblocks in read-write mode as effective with a solid state hybrid drive as with a hard disk drive?
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Is badblocks in read-write mode as effective with a solid state hybrid drive (SSHD) as with a hard disk drive (HDD)?
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if all blocks of the device are written in that ...
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What are the strategies available to minimise badblocks on an encrypted partition?
Let me explain my backup strategy and the problem I am facing.
My current backup strategy:
Open encrypted container and execute Carbon Copy Cleaner on it at least once a week.
Rotate backup disks.
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How to mark bad-sectors on SSD drive?
My SSD drive has started to have some bad sectors. My plan is to to copy it to another drive using dd, but it seems like a few bad sectors are making this impossible.
How do I mark bad sectors on ...
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Will blocks diagnosed as bad by Linux badblocks command be marked as “bad” in Windows?
I have used badblocks to check for bad blocks, then formatted the disk using the badblocks output through mkdosfs
I just want to ask does this make these sectors bad and does Windows 7 just not use ...
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A RAM stick has a few bad blocks. Is there any way I can turn them off, or allocate the bad blocks so other programs cannot use them?
System instability, such certain programs crashing under load, led me to test my memory modules. The bad blocks on the problem stick lie in the range 001CB18000 to 001CB19000.
The memory stick has a ...
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smartmontools Bad Block How To for Windows
There's a tutorial on how to deal with bad blocks detected by
Smart checks (click here to see).
Unfortunately, it uses some tools only available on
Linux (fdisk, etc).
I'd like to know if there is ...
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Linux - Repairing bad blocks on a RAID1 array with GPT
The tl;dr: how would I go about fixing a bad block on 1 disk in a RAID1 array?
But please read this whole thing for what I've tried already and possible errors in my methods. I've tried to be as ...
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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?
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Running Windows 2008 R2 server.
I have 5 physical disks in my system.
4 2TB disks are setup ...
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Are all bad blocks the same on a HDD?
I don't know much about the physics behind bad blocks on a HDD, but I've often seen that a "bad" block turns to good when you overwrite it with something (anything, zeroes will do). I've even written ...
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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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Should the Current Pending Sector value change during a format with bad block checking on?
I have a drive that has had a few file corruptions. It seems to be due to getting very hot at some point in the past, the max reported temperature is 99C ! I've recovered as much data from it as I can ...
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Single spots of slow harddisk performance, but no bad sectors?
I use a Samsung 1.5TB harddisk (EcoGreen F2) and recently tidied up quite a lot. So 500GB is written, the rest is free.
Now when I am copying some huge files (gigabyte sized), the harddisk shows full ...
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Finding the file that is on a bad block on a HFS+ volume (debugfs for HFS+)
I have a drive in our iMac that has bad blocks, as booting from an Ubuntu 11.10 live CD and using ddrescue -f /dev/sda /dev/null finds them. I'd like to get the drive to remap them by writing to the ...
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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 ...
