I used badblocks to scan a partition on my hdd for bad sectors and it gave me the following output
…from what I understand it looks like "one scratch on the hdd" … anyways I can't partition with gparted because of this bad sector (my previous question: I need help with increasing the size of the file-system partition. Partitioning-o-phobia!) gparted still gives me "a red exclamation mark" on the drive after the badblocks test. …now what?
I have also tried chkdsk
on windows but still gparted gives the red mark
How do I mark this bad sector so that gparted can do its work? 🙂 …plz exclude answers about "replacing the hdd" I know I can do that.
Best Answer
...well now gparted says it's clean!! AT LAST!! ...anyways I'm not sure what exactly solved the problem but I'll list what I've done backwards:
sudo ntfsfix -b /dev/sda6
which gave out:but before that I did:
and before that I did
sudo badblocks -nvs /dev/sda6
... which took 2 whole days to finish!anyways, lastly, before the last command, I opened windows 7 and used the
chkdsk
utility (right click the partition, properties, "tools"(or something like that), check for errors)I hope this helps anyone.