Questions tagged [badblocks]

Tool for searching bad blocks in block devices and partitions. Use for questions about the tool badblocks or to repair bad blocks on devices.

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Is my hard-disk doomed?

SMART Data & Self-Tests Overall Assessment reports for both disks Disk is OK. What does this mean? According to the following two screenshots is my hard disk doomed?

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asked Jul 15 '15 at 13:48

anchicka

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How to use badblocks to scan a certain /dev/sdX to deal with bad sectors

I need to do partitioning to an NTFS drive that gparted said it has bad sectors. (I made a question here) Anyways I followed its advice of using chkdsk on windows and restarted it twice but gparted still says it has bad sectors. I thought I'd try…

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asked Jan 07 '14 at 19:17

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Compaq Presario SR1123WM, HELP?

1GB memory, 90% free 70GB HDD 7200rpm, Intel Celeron (P) 330 2.66 GHz 533 FSB installed Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS 32 bit. It is slower than prior Windows XP 32bit OS. what is wrong? may I improve performance?

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asked Feb 13 '15 at 19:34

Larry

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badblocks command in linux got stuck after checking certain blocks. Does that mean there is any issue with the sd card?

badblocks command in linux got stuck after checking certain blocks. Does that mean there is any issue with the sd card ? sys]$badblocks -v /dev/mmcblk0p1 Checking blocks 0 to 1231646 Checking for bad blocks (read-only test):…

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