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Copying data from a Mac Bootcamp partition with bad sectors
I have a Mac running OS X 10.5 that has a Windows XP boot camp partition that will no longer boots and is throwing me input/output errors when I attempt to view the Bootcamp partition in Terminal. My ...
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What is wrong with my HDD?
The first value marked in yellow is seen in the picture and the other is:
Current pending Sector Count Current:100 Worst:100 Threshold:0 Raw Values:000000000003
Whatever this problem is, is making ...
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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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unreadable corrupted ntfs partition - lost clusters reported
partition magic is reporting multiple 'bad file record signature' and 'lost clusters' errors on my 250GB samsung sata disk (connected via usb on a xp sp3). Unfortunately PM is unable to fix. PM shows ...
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How do I determine what file occupies a given sector in Mac OS X?
There are similar questions for Windows and Linux, but I need this on OS X. The filesystem is HFS+, journaled. I have a sector LBA, I could find where a partition starts with gpt (though it refuses to ...
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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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mdadm raid5 read error not correctable
I have a software raid5 setup existing of 4 disks.
sda, sdb, sdc, sdd
Since everything was up and running I wanted to test the array. To do this I pulled the plug on one of the disks (sdd).
Everything ...
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How to change hdd read error timeout?
I'm recovering data from an hdd using ddrescue. With "retry" disabled, it takes roughly 30 seconds for every unreadable sector. The hdd has tens of thousands of bad sectors and the process is taking ...
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How can I find out what's on a certain block in an HFS+ formatted drive?
I've got a hard disk that has damaged blocks. I'm now copying it using ddrescue to an external drive.
I've got a file with the list of the damaged blocks, how can I find out which files are located ...
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HD Tune last block not scanned
Why is it only on some HDDs and some Removable Devices do I have the last block in the Error Scan unchecked?
Thanks
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WD Disk. Boot disk for patching bad sectors?
Is there an ideal boot disk that can be used to patch bad sectors on a drive from a live USB stick? Have feeling this drive is messing up and want to patch it before things get worse on them.
