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On Sat, 2012-07-14 at 13:00 +0100, 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 > Use the Gpartd gui If the disk has been unmounted and is still unclean ie ntfs errors.. then only a windows type scandisk chkdsk /f will help you if it's clean then Gparted is good avalible in most distros and on bootable cds like Knoppix If you have a bootable cd of any linux type you can still install gparted in the virtual environment. -- ________________________________________________________________________ Regards Kevin Lucas Minions Post Master(Sub) Skype minions_shop www.minionsbandb.co.uk www.tearooms.minionsbandb.co.uk FaceBook Minions_shop Po House, Minions, Liskeard Cornwall PL14 5LE 01579363386 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq