Hi Fred,
Further to my response of today. If unfortunately it is a bad sector
problem, the only solution is to send your hard disk back to the
manufacturer. I have had several past incidents. In certain case even the
manufacturer could not get it repaired and sent me a replace, a blank new
hard disk. Of course it must be within warrantee.
To my then experience creating a partition for 2 OS to co-exist is not
reliable, many problem created thereafter. I used to have mobile racks to
operate each OS in its own hard disk. However a hard disk manufacture
dis-encouraged me keeping on this arrangement on the ground that a mobile
rack may easily damage a hard disk especially to partition. Later I found
another solution to keep 2 OS in one PC, each in its own hard disk. I make
use of BIOS to switch between OS. My arrangement is as follows;
1. Motherboard with ATA33
2. ATA66 Controller card
3. 2 hard disks, one ATA33 and another ATA66
4. Selecting the boot sequence in BIOS during starting the PC, SCSI or IDE
It works for me. 2 OS co-existing in one PC, each in its own hard disk.
However my arrangement may be shelved eternally should ATA33 motherboards
disappear completely from market.
I totally agree with Alan's view:
> All that said, I ran out to Best Buy and got a new 13.5 GB EIDE drive a
> couple days ago for $120. That's so cheap and easy that I would go get a
> new drive right now.
The cost of a hard disk is so low, affordable to most users. Get another
hard disk instead of creating partitions. If the warrantee of your hard
disk already expires, get another new one, repair also costing greenback.
B.R.
Stephen
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Mead" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, June 30, 2000 10:07 AM
Subject: Re: How to Fix Corrupt Hard Disk?
> Hey Fred,
>
> It's been a while and no replies so I'll say this: badblocks will find
> badblocks. However, it is to be used in the context of making a new fs, I
> think. So you would need to tar that partition, copy the tar file to
> another partition (or tape, etc.), remake the filesystem with mke2fs. But
> if you do that, you may as well use the -c or -w flag of mke2fs to
directly
> map bad sectors. I think this would be easier than "reinstalling
> everything" but that's easy for me to say ... I've bought a couple used
> drives and what I usually do is download the manufacturers (typically dos)
> low-level format program and formatted the disk. I've never had trouble
> with bad sectors using this procedure.
>
> Also, I don't know much about IDE hardware but the author of the badblocks
> man page seems to indicate that the drive automagically does this already.
> If it does, I wasn't aware of this magic.
>
> All that said, I ran out to Best Buy and got a new 13.5 GB EIDE drive a
> couple days ago for $120. That's so cheap and easy that I would go get a
> new drive right now.
>
> -Alan
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Fred Whipple <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2000 1:08 PM
> Subject: How to Fix Corrupt Hard Disk?
>
> : All,
> :
> : I have a hard disk I'm suspect of.. I think it has developed some bad
> : blocks since I installed Linux. Yes, time for a new one, but in the
> : mean time is there a way I can mask those bad blocks without
> : re-installing everything? I.e., a media verifier that can check a disk
> : like Norton Utilities?
> :
> : Thanks! :)
> :
> : -Fred
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