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

[Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com>]

On Samstag 31 Juli 2010, 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, 

1 block = 512byte. So you have ca 2000 bad blocks. That is A LOT.


> 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 they ignore things like a reported size of 0 and no sense.

> 
> Well.. I've backed up data from it already.

then throw it away. That disk will fail completely soon.