Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1555 mails)

[Karl Sinn <news@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Am Donnerstag, 2. Juli 2009 08:50:49 schrieb Jay Mistry:
> This HD is used for installing both Windows XP & openSUSE 11.1 (x86).
> I suspect one or more partition (200 GB FAT & the 12 GB ext3) may have
> developed bad blocks (sectors). Is there any program that can be used
> off a Live CD to check for bad blocks for Linux (ext3) and Windows
> File Systems (when booting Windows, Checkdisk begins checking the 200
> GB partition and then hangs & re-boot is necessary to login to
> Windows).

badblocks is the name for the program that checks for bad bocks :-)

Karl
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