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On 14/07/12 13:00, George Parker wrote: > 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 > $ man badblocks -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq