[SGVLUG] FW: Hard drive question

[Dan Borne]

On Mandriva and OpenSuse I have no problem dealing with NFTS drives. You
could always take it out of the bay...

2008/3/17, Claude Felizardo <cafelizardo at gmail.com>:
>
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Matt Campbell <dvdmatt at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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
>
>
> I really don't like external USB drives because you can't check the
> status of the drive.  It could be getting soft errors until it runs
> out of spare sectors then it's toast.
>
> First guess, I'd say windows doesn't like the partition table.  What
> does fdisk -l /dev/sd? report?
>
> Using Linux, you could delete all the partitions and then create one
> big partition and format it and have it check for bad sectors.  Use
> FAT32.  On my desktop here at work, I use partition id 0x0b which
> fdisk reports as "W95 FAT32".  Largest file size for FAT32 is 4 GB I
> think.
>
> Otherwise, you could use Linux to wipe out the partition table or
> possibly create the NTFS partition but let windows do the formatting.
>
> However its sounds like the drive may have issues.  If possible, I'd
> put it into a desktop and try and use spinrite to perform a low level
> format.  Catch is it requires DOS/windoze and you must have a valid
> partition table.  I've used it to bring a marginal disk back to life
> but the drive would usually fail within a few years.
>
> I also used to use partition magic 8 (yet another dos/windoze tool)
> and it works fine for FAT32 and ext2/3 partitions but it has issues
> with NFTS.  I really wish they'd update that tool but there's been no
> updates since symantec/norton bought them out.
>
> If anyone has used comparable Linux tools, I'd like to hear about it.
>
>
> claude
>



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