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[LUG] Hard drive formatting
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- Subject: [LUG] Hard drive formatting
- From: George Parker <georgeparker20@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 13:00:05 +0100
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I have a 500 Gb hard drive, not very old, that has a few bad blocks
that are causing me grief. I know that I can get the drive to log these
bad blocks so they are not used by a low level format but how do you do it?
Googling mostly says use dd for a low level format, but this only fills
up you drive with rubbish so data can't be read. In my mind this is not
low level formating. The bad blocks will still be available. Others say
it can be done from the BIOS settings, but not that I can find on mine.
Seagate's web site doesn't seem to cover it, and is Windows-centric anyway.
I think in Windows I've done it from Fdisk but how do you do it from Linux?
TIA
George
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