How to check HDD against bad blocks?

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lazi
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How to check HDD against bad blocks?

Post by lazi »

Today my system went unworkable. After starting the loaded kickstart only black screen was on the display.
When I booted without startup-sequence it gave me a smartfilesystem checksum error on a given sector. The requester was dismissable.

I have just repaired the partition by booting from CD and backup the files, reformat the partition then restored the files. It is working now, but surely some files are lost.
E.g.: PartitionWizard do not start. It says "invalid resident library", however I cant find any proble in the snoopy log.

So the main question is, how can I check the partition's physical condition? (There was DiskSalv, and QB Tools back then)

It was a SFS2 partition, but now changed to SFS.

I tried RAWDISK to read the whole partition to nil: and it is completed successfully. Does it mean I would trust in this HDD?
Raziel

Re: How to check HDD against bad blocks?

Post by Raziel »

SFS package
Read the readme of SFSSalv and let it run over your partition...
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