On Thursday 27 July 2006 16:34, Nikhil wrote: > Hi All ! > I want to know that I have HDD having bad sectors in > nearly about of 12MB. Can I use the HDD for linux OS? > B'cos on windows it hangs the computer... > Please tell me if there is any soln. on this
If you install linux afresh, you can perform check before formatting a partition. Otherwise, run badbocks on the partion first and then format the partition with list of badblocks as input. e2fsck(ext2/ext3 creation) integrates badblock checking but reiserfs does not. But don't do that. Linux stresses hardware more than windows. A piece of hardware that works on windows may fail on linux. I have seen that. And a bad disk tends to develop more bad sectors a time goes by.. Choice is yours. Regards Shridhar -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: ([email protected]) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
