Re: SUSE 10.0, Maxtor 250GB IDE, bad blocks... correct?

On Sat, 29 Apr 2006 13:39:46 -0400, Bob_M wrote:

Hello all...

Dumb question: I have a dual boot system (XP Pro/SUSE 10) and I
cannot boot SUSE as fsck complains of bad blocks on hd6.

Other than replacing the hdd, is there any what to possible correct
these bad blocks in Linux? I've certainly searched usenet and the
web in general and come up with quite a few "potential" solutions.
But I was hoping for "real world" advise.

TIA

Bob

No. Probably the best thing you can do is use dd with "conv=noerror
conv=sync" (to keep going past errors and replace bad data with zeros) to
copy to a file; then loop mount and recover data.

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