On 18/06/16 16:21, Mark Fraser wrote:
I fixed these, but on running fsck a second time, these block differences were
back. Now this drive is currently sat in an external USB tray so that I could
copy
files across before replacing the one in the computer. Are these errors due to
it being on USB or is the drive faulty?
You might try getting a copy of Windows - either Win 7 or XP. Either of
these will say that the disk has an unrecognisable system, and will
offer fdisk to delete the partition. It will let you use fdisk to
create a new NTFS partition, and will then let you do a long format to
begin installation. MS Win is very verbose in long-format mode, and you
will find out if the disk is faulty. I'm not sure whether MS can work
with a USB drive? I have a built-in trayless caddy, so I don't use a
USB arrangement. Incidentally, Windows will trash the boot sector of
/dev/sda, so unplug that before trying the process.
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