On Thursday 12 April 2007 23:10, dwain wrote:
> I have a 40gb drive that I obtained that has some i/o errors on it. Is
> there a way to fix this so I can load opensuse on it? Would it be worth
> the effort?
The answer is usually no...
... however, there are some exceptions. What I *always* try is to boot
from
the CD or DVD and enter recovery mode. From there I run fdisk against the
drive in question...
fdisk /dev/hda
Then I try to remove all of the partitions using the d command.
Then I write/sync the drive with the w command. Then add a primary
partition with the n command (make it primary) and span the entire drive.
Then create a file system on the drive (doesn't matter ... ext2 is fine
for
this purpose... and check for bad blocks.
Sometimes what appears wrong with a drive is a Microsoft thing...
sometimes
its a small set of bad blocks that can be *worked* around. Sometimes all of
the above just fails because of surface damage, or circuit damage (whatever
hardware).
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Kind regards,
M Harris <><
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