bad-blocks Archives

Writing to bad sector makes every other operation fail afterwards

By JamesPosted on February 22, 2023

QUESTION : My hard drive has a few bad blocks, so I’m trying to get a list of them all […]

By JamesPosted on December 30, 2022

Problem : I just got a QNAP TS-251, an NAS that runs Linux plus the manufacturer’s tools. One of the […]

By JamesPosted on October 28, 2022

QUESTION : Everything started with Windows failures. It was impatiently kicking some BSOD out because of missing dlls (there is […]

By JamesPosted on August 14, 2022

QUESTION : I use HD Tune pro error scan to find problems with mechanical hard drives. However, I am confused […]

By JamesPosted on August 6, 2022

Problem : When I issue the following command sudo badblocks -vs -b 4096 -o badsectors2.txt /dev/sdc1 I get as a […]

By JamesPosted on August 3, 2022

Problem : I’m running badblocks (or rather “e2fsck -c”) on a 1TB drive and if the progress indicator is any […]

By JamesPosted on July 5, 2022

QUESTION : My PC was running slow , I thought that there may be some problem with the hard disk […]

By JamesPosted on February 18, 2022

Problem : I bought a while ago a sdcard that is supposedly 32GB, but after using it for some time, […]

By JamesPosted on July 12, 2021

QUESTION : I don’t know much about the physics behind bad blocks on a HDD, but I’ve often seen that […]

By JamesPosted on July 4, 2021

QUESTION : There’s a tutorial on how to deal with bad blocks detected by Smart checks (click here to see). […]