[SGVLUG] FW: Hard drive question

[Matt Campbell]

This was sent a couple of weeks ago, but was rejected by the server, anyone
have any suggestions?

 

Matt

 

 

From: Matthew Campbell 
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 1:02 AM
To: 'SGVLUG Discussion List.'
Subject: Hard drive question

 

I have an interesting problem I have been struggling with.

 

I have a 260G LaCie USB drive that I have been using under Windows for some
time.

 

I had a data error on it, so I tried to format the drive.  I get the message
"Format didn't complete successfully".  When I try and copy data to the
drive I get a "write failed" error around 11% of the way through the copy.

 

I can fdisk, mkfs.exxt3 and copy 100Gig to it fine under Linux.

 

I can delete that partition under windows, but when I try and create a new
partition it fails immediately.

 

I would like to transfer some video files to a Windows user with this drive.
I could DOS format the drive, but then it couldn't handle the large video
files.

 

I don't think I can format the drive NTFS under Linux.

 

As far as I know there is no longer such a thing as a low level hard drive
format.

 

So, what are my options?

Is there a file system I can create under Linux which can handle large files
that the DOS user can read?

Is there a way to recover this drive so that it can be partitioned or
formatted under Windoze?  Would wiping the partition table allow Windows to
start fresh?

Is there a utility under Linux that can rescan the drive and mark any new
bad sectors?  Is this what could be tripping up the Windows format?

 

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

 

Matt

 

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