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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.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 18:05:29
Message-Id: 201007312004.47268.volkerarmin@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: hard disk access and recovery impossible under linux ? by Mick
1 On Samstag 31 Juli 2010, Mick wrote:
2 > On Saturday 31 July 2010 16:33:18 Dale wrote:
3 > > Kacper Kopczyński wrote:
4 > > > Dnia 2010-07-31, o godz. 16:15:51
5 > > >
6 > > > Volker Armin Hemmann<volkerarmin@××××××××××.com> napisał(a):
7 > > >> On Samstag 31 Juli 2010, Kacper Kopczyński wrote:
8 > > >>> Hi,
9 > > >>>
10 > > >>> My problem is really strange - I can't access my hard drive from
11 > > >>> linux, but it works from windows without problems. It has some bad
12 > > >>> blocks.
13 > > >>
14 > > >> it has a lot of bad blocks and a fucked up firmware it seems. No way
15 > > >> it is working 'without problems'.
16 > > >
17 > > > Well total space taken by bad blocks according to chkdsk is less than
18 > > > 1MB, windows is still able to access all data. Linux is only able to
19 > > > see partition table "for a while" - as you can see in dmesg.
20 > > >
21 > > > If firmware is broken then how it is possible that windows is able to
22 > > > use this disk?
23 > >
24 > > Maybe windoze is ignoring the problem? It's not like windoze has never
25 > > done that before right?
26 > >
27 > > Just a thought.
28 >
29 > Couldn't it be that the MSWindows partition has no bad blocks, while Linux
30 > does?
31
32 it is not about partitions.

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