Bad Sectors

[Nueguns]

Hi!

After my old Notebook broke I have to use the old one from my brother,.... The HDD of my old Notebook was fine, but this one has some bad sectors (Windows ignored them,... why care on errors?) These bastards from the support "The Harddisk had some bad sector but we could fix them with a low-level format"

So my problem is how to fix the bad sectors (I'm using XFS). Is there any tool where i don't lose all my data. I don't want to set the system up again cause atm it works fine but the bad sectors.

Nüguns

[myrella]

I have problems with my hard disk(bad sectors) and I resolved them with software from http://www.fix-hdd-bad-sectors.com Good luck.

[rcgreen]

If the problem is software related, ie filesystem corruption,
then the normal file system check like fsck should
be able to fix it. If you have physically bad sectors, the drive
belongs in the trash.

[burnit]

In a very old laptop (Pentium 1 with bug! ), harddisk had some sector damaged.

While Windows detect them automatically only on recent versions, you can patch your Linux kernel: in this way the filesystem don't use that sectors...

However this is related with filesystem using... so you can affine your search for XFS... otherwise change your fs if you find some usefull patch.

Sorry, I don't remeber the patch name.