2014-07-27 5:29 GMT-06:00 <[email protected]>: > > 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've only read this thread not the previous, and I can only give some feedback on this part, if i understood dd reported failing at 4288352511 bytes in your drive, make a loopback device with an offset past that sector to try dd keep going, or run dd with skip up to that sector with. # losetup -o 428835252 /dev/loop1 /dev/your_hdd just to give an example, calculate an apropiate byte count for a 1 sector above, and then use dd on /dev/loop1
