[NBLUG/talk] Help with BAD hard drive

[Ian Sutherland]

Partition Magic lists the drive as BAD.

This is the output of parted;

Using /dev/hdd
Warning: The partition table on /dev/hdd is inconsistent.  There are
many reasons why this might be the case.  Often, the reason is that
Linux detected the BIOS geometry incorrectly.  However, this does not
appear to be the case here.  It is safe to ignore,but ignoring may cause
(fixable) problems with some boot loaders, and may cause problems with
FAT file systems.  Using LBA is recommended.
Ignore/Cancel? Ignore
(parted) print
Disk geometry for /dev/hdd: 0.000-39205.687 megabytes
Disk label type: msdos
Minor    Start       End     Type      Filesystem  Flags
1          7.844  32592.810  extended              boot, lba
5          7.875  19681.193  logical   ntfs
6      19681.225  32592.810  logical   ntfs
2      32593.148  32692.570  primary   ext3
3      32692.570  38693.812  primary   ext3
4      38693.812  39205.687  primary   linux-swap

Both WinXP and Fedora 2 seem to work OK.

What can I do to fix?
How do I use LBA?

Thanks, Ian


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