Buy spinrite from www.grc.com, that will work, but after fixing, I would copy to a new drive. You will need a dos disk but this program works well.
On Fri, 27 Sep 2019 22:38:59 -0400, local10 wrote: > > Sep 27, 2019, 20:08 by bouncingc...@gmail.com: > > > Hi, I assume you are attempting to follow a procedure similar > > to this one: > > https://www.smartmontools.org/wiki/BadBlockHowto#Repairsinafilesystem > > <https://www.smartmontools.org/wiki/BadBlockHowto#Repairsinafilesystem> > > > > Yes, a different document but the same idea. The one you linked is actually a > better document. > > > > It's telling you that the filesystem itself is broken/unreadable. > > I assume you know what inodes are, if not then you should > > read about that. > > > > In such a case, I think that it is not possible to repair this filesystem. > > > > What I find weird about this that the filesystem (it's a root filesystem) > appears to be fully functional, it boots without issues and generally > everything seems to work fine, the only indication of a problemĀ I see in the > SMART log. Would be nice if there a was a way to just repair it, without > reinstalling everything. > > Thanks > > -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici wb2una cov...@ccs.covici.com