Re: [gentoo-user] OT: hard disk access and recovery impossible under linux ?

[Mick]

On Saturday 31 July 2010 19:04:47 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> On Samstag 31 Juli 2010, Mick wrote:
> > On Saturday 31 July 2010 16:33:18 Dale wrote:
> > > Kacper Kopczyński wrote:
> > > > Dnia 2010-07-31, o godz. 16:15:51
> > > >
> > > > Volker Armin Hemmann<volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>  napisał(a):
> > > >> On Samstag 31 Juli 2010, Kacper Kopczyński wrote:
> > > >>> Hi,
> > > >>>
> > > >>> My problem is really strange - I can't access my hard drive from
> > > >>> linux, but it works from windows without problems. It has some bad
> > > >>> blocks.
> > > >>
> > > >> it has a lot of bad blocks and a fucked up firmware it seems. No way
> > > >> it is working 'without problems'.
> > > >
> > > > Well total space taken by bad blocks according to chkdsk is less than
> > > > 1MB, windows is still able to access all data. Linux is only able to
> > > > see partition table "for a while" - as you can see in dmesg.
> > > >
> > > > If firmware is broken then how it is possible that windows is able to
> > > > use this disk?
> > >
> > > Maybe windoze is ignoring the problem?  It's not like windoze has never
> > > done that before right?
> > >
> > > Just a thought.
> >
> > Couldn't it be that the MSWindows partition has no bad blocks, while
> > Linux does?
>
> it is not about partitions.

Please explain, I thought that bad blocks would coincide with some partitions.
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Regards,
Mick