[NBLUG/talk] testing for hard drive bad sectors

Scott Doty scott at sonic.net
Sun Jun 7 13:15:23 PDT 2009


sean machin wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I think the hard drive on one of my laptops has some bad sectors, does 
> anyone know of a good utility for scanning the entire disk
> and marking any bad sectors as bad?  Utility can be Linux or Windows based.
>   
e2fsck -c will do it -- check the man page. :)

 -Scott




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