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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: hard disk access and recovery impossible under linux ?
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 16:15:22
Message-Id: 201007311714.55223.michaelkintzios@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: hard disk access and recovery impossible under linux ? by Dale
1 On Saturday 31 July 2010 16:33:18 Dale wrote:
2 > Kacper Kopczyński wrote:
3 > > Dnia 2010-07-31, o godz. 16:15:51
4 > >
5 > > Volker Armin Hemmann<volkerarmin@××××××××××.com> napisał(a):
6 > >> On Samstag 31 Juli 2010, Kacper Kopczyński wrote:
7 > >>> Hi,
8 > >>>
9 > >>> My problem is really strange - I can't access my hard drive from
10 > >>> linux, but it works from windows without problems. It has some bad
11 > >>> blocks.
12 > >>
13 > >> it has a lot of bad blocks and a fucked up firmware it seems. No way
14 > >> it is working 'without problems'.
15 > >
16 > > Well total space taken by bad blocks according to chkdsk is less than
17 > > 1MB, windows is still able to access all data. Linux is only able to
18 > > see partition table "for a while" - as you can see in dmesg.
19 > >
20 > > If firmware is broken then how it is possible that windows is able to
21 > > use this disk?
22 >
23 > Maybe windoze is ignoring the problem? It's not like windoze has never
24 > done that before right?
25 >
26 > Just a thought.
27
28 Couldn't it be that the MSWindows partition has no bad blocks, while Linux
29 does?
30
31 --
32 Regards,
33 Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] OT: hard disk access and recovery impossible under linux ? Joshua Murphy <poisonbl@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: hard disk access and recovery impossible under linux ? Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>