Check For Bad Sectors In A Drive With Badblocks

In this tutorial I will be using badblocks a Linux utility designed to scan a drive for badblocks and report any findings.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• bad
• blocks
• badblocks
• linux
• sectors
• hard
• drive
• compact
• flash
• memory
• sector
• pivot

[Yonnlopez]

Hi, great demo on the use of this great tool, im using it right now but i want to actually destroy the badblocks found, just to get the internal hard drive going again im trying to save it before replacing it. (i noted u using badblocks in a non destructive manner i actually want to destroy them badblocks :)

[AppA]

This tool is great! It's the best one for finding out whether disks are really faulty or not.

Btw, 01:03 - I've seen plenty of live environments that automounted disks. (L/X/K/etc.)Ubuntu are very good example of this. You can however umount them manually of course.

[visualizainc]

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