On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann < volkerar...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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<volkerar...@googlemail.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. > > If the firmware/logic board is bad, you might be able to replace it with one from the same model. I've heard of some success from a coworker who took the logic board from a known good drive and put it on a HDD with good internals but a bad logic board, and it worked. That's if you need the data, that is. - Mark Shields
