Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 13:55:03 +0100 From: "Malcolm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Now bad physical HDD blocks [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Hmmm... now I'm wondering if ghost is ignoring the marked bad blocks and may > be trying to restore the old image right over them. > Ghost will indeed ignore the bad blocks and attempt to write to them :( If it was a SCSI hard drive you had (or maybe some types of IDE drives?) you would not have this problem... >From what I recall of the FAT filesystem, the bad block information is kept track of by DOS/Windows, not the hard drive. It`s part of the file system. When you use Ghost, Ghost will just try to restore the filesystem information from the partition it has an image in. It will not look at pre-existing bad block information. Perhaps there is a way to get it to do so but... err, I `ve never used Ghost so can`t help you there. Sorry. A SCSI drive does bad block revectoring i.e. there are a few hundred or few thousand blocks `reserved` for use when a block goes bad... details of the bad block are stored in the drive`s firmware, and it revectors attempts to access that bad block to one of the reserved blocks. IDE drives, as far as I know, don`t have such a feature. Perhaps you might be able to get something working if you can either a) tell Ghost to use the pre-exisiting bad block information, or b) tell ghost to ignore bad blocks (if you can) and then deal with the problems once you`ve restored the image. BTW have ordered a Libretto case from someone in Canada, including screen cable.... Maybe I will get the thing to work after all! or maybe I will find out the LCD is bust :( Speaking of which where can you source LCD screen replacements? :( -Malcolm. > Matt > > _________________________________________________________________ > Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online > http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 > > > ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
