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

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

On Samstag 31 Juli 2010, Mick wrote:
> 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.

because defectice partitions don't give you no sense errors nor do they give 
you zero capacity errors. Read his dmesg.