Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.

Author Topic: Software recommendation for checking for bad sectors  (Read 2113 times)

Description:

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline countzeroTopic starter

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Join Date: Mar 2005
  • Posts: 1938
    • Show all replies
    • http://blog.coze.org
Software recommendation for checking for bad sectors
« on: April 27, 2006, 12:48:47 PM »
I was thinking of checking my newly bought scsi drives for bad sectors (on WinXP). In the past, dos format command had something for bad sectors (a blue screen with yellow dots, bad sectors marked as red) unfortunately (or fortunately) I've completely forgotten that stuff. How can I do that on a modern windows now ? will a format will do ? (or fscheck for linux ?)

also, is there a way to amiga partition and format a hd on a x86 machine ? A few days ago I was configuring a 2.6 linux kernel and I saw an option for amiga filesystem support. Does anyone know if it's reliable ?
I believe in mt. Fuji
 

Offline countzeroTopic starter

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Join Date: Mar 2005
  • Posts: 1938
    • Show all replies
    • http://blog.coze.org
Re: Software recommendation for checking for bad sectors
« Reply #1 on: April 27, 2006, 01:38:59 PM »
Quote

motorollin wrote:
and mark any that it finds.

--
moto


how do I see those marks ? well, actually, only a general report would be ok as well. Scandisk didn't give me any options after it finished.
I believe in mt. Fuji
 

Offline countzeroTopic starter

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Join Date: Mar 2005
  • Posts: 1938
    • Show all replies
    • http://blog.coze.org
Re: Software recommendation for checking for bad sectors
« Reply #2 on: April 27, 2006, 01:59:40 PM »
hmm yeah, well I don't need to see them. I just wanted to see how many bad sectors they have. Seems like all are pretty in good shape. I bought these scsi drives from the fleamarket in tokyo for about 2-5$ each that's why I'm little bit suspicious.
I believe in mt. Fuji