Re: [gentoo-user] OT: hard disk access and recovery impossible under linux ?

[Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>]

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On Saturday 31 July 2010 16:33:18 Dale wrote:
> Kacper Kopczyński wrote:
> > Dnia 2010-07-31, o godz. 16:15:51
> > 
> > Volker Armin Hemmann<volkerarmin@googlemail.com>  napisał(a):
> >> On Samstag 31 Juli 2010, Kacper Kopczyński wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>> 
> >>> My problem is really strange - I can't access my hard drive from
> >>> linux, but it works from windows without problems. It has some bad
> >>> blocks.
> >> 
> >> it has a lot of bad blocks and a fucked up firmware it seems. No way
> >> it is working 'without problems'.
> > 
> > Well total space taken by bad blocks according to chkdsk is less than
> > 1MB, windows is still able to access all data. Linux is only able to
> > see partition table "for a while" - as you can see in dmesg.
> > 
> > If firmware is broken then how it is possible that windows is able to
> > use this disk?
> 
> Maybe windoze is ignoring the problem?  It's not like windoze has never
> done that before right?
> 
> Just a thought.

Couldn't it be that the MSWindows partition has no bad blocks, while Linux 
does?

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Regards,
Mick

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