On Samstag 31 Juli 2010, Kacper Kopczyński wrote: > Dnia 2010-07-31, o godz. 16:15:51 > > Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerar...@googlemail.com> napisał(a): > > On Samstag 31 Juli 2010, Kacper Kopczyński wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > My problem is really strange - I can't access my hard drive from > > > linux, but it works from windows without problems. It has some bad > > > blocks. > > > > it has a lot of bad blocks and a fucked up firmware it seems. No way > > it is working 'without problems'. > > Well total space taken by bad blocks according to chkdsk is less than > 1MB,
1 block = 512byte. So you have ca 2000 bad blocks. That is A LOT. > windows is still able to access all data. Linux is only able to > see partition table "for a while" - as you can see in dmesg. > > If firmware is broken then how it is possible that windows is able to > use this disk? maybe they ignore things like a reported size of 0 and no sense. > > Well.. I've backed up data from it already. then throw it away. That disk will fail completely soon.
