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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.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 15:33:55
Message-Id: 4C54423E.2020208@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: hard disk access and recovery impossible under linux ? by "Kacper Kopczyński"
1 Kacper Kopczyński wrote:
2 > Dnia 2010-07-31, o godz. 16:15:51
3 > Volker Armin Hemmann<volkerarmin@××××××××××.com> napisał(a):
4 >
5 >
6 >> On Samstag 31 Juli 2010, Kacper Kopczyński wrote:
7 >>
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 >>
18 > Well total space taken by bad blocks according to chkdsk is less than
19 > 1MB, windows is still able to access all data. Linux is only able to
20 > see partition table "for a while" - as you can see in dmesg.
21 >
22 > If firmware is broken then how it is possible that windows is able to
23 > use this disk?
24 >
25 >
26
27 Maybe windoze is ignoring the problem? It's not like windoze has never
28 done that before right?
29
30 Just a thought.
31
32 Dale
33
34 :-) :-)

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