[NBLUG/talk] Checking HD BEFORE installing Linux

[Todd Cary]

I would like to do a new format using Linux utilities...I'll check my 
Admin book from Mark's course and see what it says and what I remember...

Lincoln Peters wrote:

>On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 09:41 -0800, Todd Cary wrote:
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>>I am having HD problems, or at least fsck is telling me so: it has not 
>>been able to resolve the "short reads" after several tries.  I would 
>>like to reformat the HD and I am not sure the best way to do that other 
>>than put my Win98 floppy in the drive and use DOS commands.  Using Linux 
>>utilities is my goal.
>>
>>Suggestions?
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>To check your primary master hard disk for bad blocks:
>badblocks /dev/hda
>It will list any blocks that register as "bad" (the kernel may spew a
>few errors to the console when it hits a bad blocks before badblocks can
>say anything).
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>Also, what company manufactured your hard disk?  They might offer a free
>diagnostic utility for it.
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>Lincoln Peters
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