Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3622 mails)

["Larry Stotler" <larrystotler@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 11:21 AM, John Heinen <hensandpat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thank you all, I guess I am to square one though. The modem problem is not
> relevant right now. There is something wrong with my old hard drive, its
> only 10 gig and all used for linux partition but it won't execute anything,
> even if  I load another program e.g. kubuntu, it loads but no action. Is
> there a repartition program for Linux exclusive hard drive

Boot the rescue mode and run badblocks on it.  If it's the first
drive(and should be) do:

badblocks -v /dev/hda

OR, if it is been seen as a SATA/SCSI disk(which they started doing
recently, do:

badblocks -v /dev/sda

That will list any bad sectors.  Or, grab a copy of the Ultimate Boot CD

http://web0.v608.ncsrv.de/data/ubcd411.zip

unzip it and burn the ISO.  I generally use the IBM/Hitachi utility to
test my drives.

> Please send no flowers or sympathy cards yet, maybe there is drive life
> hereafter.

Good luck.  With drives, you can do some work arounds, but once they
get bad sectors, I get leery of them and just use them for test
purposes(trying a new distro).

PS, Please try to trim down your quotes.  Don't forget we still have
people on dial up.  Thanx
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