Dale <[email protected]> [14-07-27 14:36]: > [email protected] wrote: > > Back to the initial problem: How can I offline test the rest of the > > disk if the first bad sector (10%) of the surface breaks the test with > > an error? Best regards, mcc > > I never got mine to go past the first failure until I used dd to erase > the drive. As mentioned before, I may could have done that without > moving my data but that was to complicated and risky for me at the > time. From my understanding tho, until that data is moved off the bad > spot so that the drive knows it can do what it needs to, that spot is > still going to show up. I don't know of a way to make it test beyond > the bad spot either. > > If you have a drive that you can move that data over to so that you can > play with the bad drive, that's what I would do. Once you get it moved, > then dd the whole drive, run the test and then see what results you > get. I looked at a howto that someone posted or I found and doing it > with the data on there just made me nervous. > > I'm running out of info here. Anyone else provide more help than me? > > Dale > > :-) :-) >
Hi Dale, thanks for the info... I already did this. PLEASE read my previous posting completly. dd failed with an I/O error at that spot.
