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I have a 1 TB HDD so I want to test for bad sectors or bad blocks but badblocks takes a LOT of time in Linux (barely 4.66% done in 6 hours 3 minutes). In Windows however chkdsk scans in a few seconds and it couldn't find any errors.
What is the difference between bad sectors and bad blocks? Also, what is the difference between chkdsk in Windows and badblocks in Linux when it comes to testing bad sectors?
makgun
Posted 2015-05-26T19:45:10.750
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The short answer is NO, there is no free candy.
Obviously the reason why chkdsk runs so fast is because it doesn't check for bad sectors by default. You have to run it with /r switch to scan for bad sectors, at which point it will get slow as well.
As for the difference between badblocks and chkdsk, the first one is a dedicated tool which discovers bad sectors, while the latter is a general-purpose disk check utility shipped with Windows which happens to have the bad sector recovery feature.
Dmitry Grigoryev
Posted 2015-05-26T19:45:10.750
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Is not a fast task, it takes time according your volume size, on linux you can use badblocks command to scan for bad sectors:
Open a Terminal:
badblocks -nsv /dev/[volume]
On windows you can use CHKDSK Start>run>cmd
CHKDSK [volume] /r
Francisco Tapia
Posted 2015-05-26T19:45:10.750
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-w option means that DESTRUCTIVE mode? Because o my hdd 45 gb data used and All of them is neccessarry for me. But Now I learned chkdsk. Thanks – makgun – 2015-05-26T20:18:27.967
@makgun you can play with the options :) thats why i append the man page on foot. – Francisco Tapia – 2015-05-26T20:19:44.437
I confused that will it destructive or non-destructive? Sorry my english is not so good. – makgun – 2015-05-26T20:35:19.003
destructive one will destroy data coz it makes the test writting patterns in hard disk, the other method is with -n it will preserve your data corrupted or not. – Francisco Tapia – 2015-05-26T20:40:09.167
Ok one thing more I wanna ask to you that creating partition on hdd will change the sector number ? So badblocks corrupted 2 days ago because of usb cable at 70% so I dont wanna wait until 70% so I started corrupted sector number which logged by badblocks. It will gives me fully reliable test? – makgun – 2015-05-26T20:23:29.483
Hmm, nothing is free but 20*6 hours sounds wrong for a consumer drive, barring dumbness like usb2. I think it took Windows less than 12 hours on a similar (but internal) drive.
badblocksmight not be optimized for modern drives. – sourcejedi – 2015-05-26T20:23:59.443sourcejedi my hdd is not modern I think. it is WD element se portable. – makgun – 2015-05-26T20:29:25.473
@makgun The sector count of the HDD won't change if you create partitions. However, CHKDSK will only test sectors allocated to windows partitions. – Dmitry Grigoryev – 2015-05-26T20:31:47.980
@dmitry-grigoryev Ok thanks your very quickly answer.! You saved me alot of time ! – makgun – 2015-05-26T20:37:04.180