Stoopid Reinstall Question

[rjbinney]

I am running the Dell Pre-Boot diagnostics. I am finding tons of "uncorrectable data errors" and "address mark not found"s. Well, I guess I have some bad blocks. You think dropping the thing contributed to that???

Yeah, I know, I will need to replace the HD.

BUT, is there something in SLAX that will allow me to run something like Scandisk and "repair" the blocks??

Thanks!

[GX1_Man]

The drive maker would be the source for that or something like Spinrite, but it's not free there. If the drive is bad it needs to be replaced not "repaired at". Slax can indeed format the drive and seek errors, but so can Windows.

[rjbinney]

Yeah, I know, I will need to replace the HD.

Slax can indeed format the drive and seek errors, but so can Windows.

Right. My suspicion is that the sectors are bad because of physical trauma. So if I can:
- "Repair" the sectors in SLAX
- Reboot under Windows
- Run a full backup

Then I can replace the drive. But I can't get step two cooking until I get past step one.

That's my plan. I know it's flawed, but I hope it's at least workable.

[GX1_Man]

That's my plan. [highlight]I know it's flawed[/highlight], but I hope it's at least workable.

Software can not fix damaged hardware.

Save your data while you can, then change the drive. If you monkey around with it, it could ALL be lost.   ;)