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Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> [14-07-27 14:36]: |
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> meino.cramer@×××.de wrote: |
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> > Back to the initial problem: How can I offline test the rest of the |
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> > disk if the first bad sector (10%) of the surface breaks the test with |
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> > an error? Best regards, mcc |
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> I never got mine to go past the first failure until I used dd to erase |
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> the drive. As mentioned before, I may could have done that without |
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> moving my data but that was to complicated and risky for me at the |
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> time. From my understanding tho, until that data is moved off the bad |
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> spot so that the drive knows it can do what it needs to, that spot is |
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> still going to show up. I don't know of a way to make it test beyond |
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> the bad spot either. |
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> If you have a drive that you can move that data over to so that you can |
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> play with the bad drive, that's what I would do. Once you get it moved, |
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> then dd the whole drive, run the test and then see what results you |
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> get. I looked at a howto that someone posted or I found and doing it |
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> with the data on there just made me nervous. |
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> I'm running out of info here. Anyone else provide more help than me? |
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> Dale |
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> :-) :-) |
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Hi Dale, |
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thanks for the info... |
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I already did this. PLEASE read my previous posting completly. |
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dd failed with an I/O error at that spot. |
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