141 How can I intentionally break/corrupt a sector on an SD card? 2017-09-11T07:28:36.050

29 How long does badblocks take on a 1TB drive? 2011-02-02T00:20:02.427

21 Using “badblocks” on modern disks 2013-01-04T16:44:56.890

19 How to make smartd shut up about one particular offline uncorrectable sector? 2013-01-10T01:08:03.967

18 Trying to remove/diagnose single Current_Pending_Sector in S.M.A.R.T. data 2013-11-18T11:53:43.703

17 How can I test the full capacity of an SD card in Linux? 2013-05-21T22:53:45.847

14 badblocks vs. SMART Extended Self Test 2013-12-25T18:16:22.383

11 View bad blocks on mounted ext2/ext3/ext4 filesystem 2011-03-18T07:05:45.727

10 Rescuing a hdd with bad sectors: dd vs gddrescue 2011-10-18T13:27:28.493

8 If I have "badblocks" write its output to a file, and that file is empty, does that mean that no bad blocks were found? 2013-11-29T16:52:28.907

7 How to test SSDs or NVMe for badblocks'? 2017-11-08T21:57:43.223

6 Bad Block on Virtual Machine (Virtual or Physical Problem?) 2011-07-31T20:24:18.300

6 Finding the file that is on a bad block on a HFS+ volume (debugfs for HFS+) 2012-01-15T07:13:10.027

5 65537 bad sectors on my 320Gb usb drive. Is it really dead? 2010-12-05T20:19:02.183

5 Can you recover from a backup with bad blocks? 2011-06-05T07:44:40.800

5 Rufus says my USB drive has bad blocks, how do I fix it? 2015-05-02T10:50:44.310

4 Is badblocks in read-write mode as effective with a solid state hybrid drive as with a hard disk drive? 2012-12-24T02:32:07.260

4 Is there any option to quickly scan an entire hard drive for bad blocks? 2015-05-26T19:45:10.750

3 Any way to recover a file with bad blocks (CRC error in Windows)? 2012-03-10T13:18:26.357

3 what physical disk is referenced by Event 7, Disk error "The device, \Device\Harddisk2\DR2, has a bad block." 2012-04-23T04:14:56.700

3 How to quickly format a HDD with bad sectors (in linux)? 2013-10-25T10:01:57.707

3 Mark bad blocks as unusable on NTFS using linux 2014-03-09T11:44:38.293

3 Can BSOD cause bad sectors on a hard drive? 2015-02-24T12:54:15.343

3 What happens to sectors marked as bad when HDD is repartitioned? 2015-04-29T15:13:19.560

3 How to start badblocks at a specified portion of the drive 2018-02-13T04:19:31.227

2 Disaster After Removing Two HDD From LaCie RAID 0 Case 2011-02-14T05:08:21.343

2 Will my hdd fail? 2011-03-01T09:22:08.163

2 Single spots of slow harddisk performance, but no bad sectors? 2012-02-10T19:54:54.403

2 Are all bad blocks the same on a HDD? 2012-03-13T11:10:39.620

2 How to mark bad-sectors on SSD drive? 2012-10-05T19:44:16.387

2 How can I manually mark a bad block on a NTFS-formatted hard disk in Windows? 2014-06-26T16:49:17.920

2 Is my SSD starting to fail? 2014-12-15T22:21:56.007

2 Thousands of bad clusters discovered by chkdsk on external HDD 2015-01-03T11:43:01.823

2 How do you securely erase remapped bad sectors on HDD in Linux? 2016-12-28T02:41:54.383

2 partclone via clonezilla - where are the bad blocks logged? 2018-01-03T00:04:44.800

2 How to interpret S.M.A.R.T and Badblocks results 2018-06-11T06:43:15.243

1 Linux - Repairing bad blocks on a RAID1 array with GPT 2012-07-03T22:25:03.220

1 smartmontools Bad Block How To for Windows 2012-07-10T21:02:05.703

1 A RAM stick has a few bad blocks. Is there any way I can turn them off, or allocate the bad blocks so other programs cannot use them? 2012-07-23T18:45:08.487

1 Will blocks diagnosed as bad by Linux badblocks command be marked as "bad" in Windows? 2012-10-02T06:56:03.577

1 What happens after ddrescue? 2013-01-10T13:24:47.293

1 Write errors on USB pendrives will get reported? 2013-04-13T15:39:13.000

1 Bad sectors vs spare/reserve sectors and how the OS and disk interpret them 2014-02-20T22:25:34.513

1 How to fix bad blocks on SSD 2014-07-27T14:08:06.747

1 Should I test that an SSD is working properly the same way I test an HDD? 2014-11-15T00:09:24.550

1 Is it a hardware failure to have badblocks on HDD 2015-12-22T16:27:20.743

1 Can data patterns on HDD cause corruption? 2016-02-29T21:37:06.007

1 How long would badblocks take on a 40GB disk? How do I optimize the whole procedure? 2016-12-26T06:54:44.183

1 SMART: Is my HDD about to get bad sectors and corrupted data? 2016-12-29T04:38:43.873

1 ext4 filesystem still has errors after fsck 2017-08-22T19:06:15.220

1 ZFS scrub finds checksum errors, but badblocks and smartctl do not 2018-04-18T16:14:31.787

1 How to add a sector to the list of badblocks for ext4? 2018-11-13T04:00:37.707

1 Strange data corruption on HDD after switching from Windows to Linux 2019-03-26T12:27:19.060

1 How to scan boot/system drive for bad sectors on Ubuntu machine? 2019-07-06T04:54:37.523

0 Bad sdcard report 32DB but has only 2GB wired in, how to detect valid area 2011-11-02T11:11:46.200

0 Should the Current Pending Sector value change during a format with bad block checking on? 2012-02-22T12:12:36.177

0 What are the strategies available to minimise badblocks on an encrypted partition? 2012-11-14T02:40:28.310

0 Error on rebuilding Linux raid-1 2013-09-04T06:08:38.223

0 Hard disk failure is imminent 2013-09-07T14:02:14.717

0 Tool to read all blocks from HDD and write it back 2013-09-08T20:57:28.473

0 check if hdd has bad sectors ad force windows to ignore them 2014-02-06T13:15:42.297

0 HDD Current_Pending_Sector attribute going up and down 2014-02-28T21:04:53.387

0 Is it possible to mark or segregate bad blocks on HDD? 2014-06-22T14:40:57.690

0 Best copy process with pending sectors? 2015-02-03T09:58:16.960

0 How to know if bad sectors are caused by physical or logical damage? 2015-03-25T16:54:00.467

0 Usefulness of badblock on modern storage media 2015-05-29T16:13:59.710

0 Does having some Bad Sectors indicate that the drive will crash soon? 2015-06-18T16:41:05.753

0 Does it worth to reinstall Windows 7 in the same partition after bad sectors found by CHKDSK in it? 2015-12-13T22:02:49.650

0 Input/output error when reading disk 2015-12-22T22:06:24.063

0 New external USB HDD cannot copy big files and develops bad blocks 2016-01-15T18:55:11.327

0 Retrieve data from a mountable partition refusing `cp` but allowing `dd` 2016-02-09T06:59:01.043

0 Is there a good way to scan a drive for bad blocks in the background? 2016-02-25T23:21:17.450

0 Writing to bad sector makes every other operation fail afterwards 2016-09-14T21:39:46.310

0 mkfs.ext4 and mkfs.vfat with same badblock file give me different space 2016-12-29T12:34:19.327

0 Badblocks and fsck say HDD is clean but Linux marks it as read-only 2017-04-24T10:23:24.013

0 How to know if bad block is logical or physical? 2017-07-11T09:46:42.193

0 I can't change SATA hard disk (working in UDMA) to PIO mode in Linux 2018-06-06T16:27:40.297

0 Detecting bad blocks/ sectors on modern (spinning) drives and script to monitor SMART info 2018-10-18T22:18:26.910

0 Checking a new disk for bad blocks on Linux, does read-only make sense? 2018-10-25T19:18:29.977

0 How can I attempt to read bad sectors from the end of the disk, using ddrescue? 2019-03-10T20:20:54.397

0 HDD SMART test shows read error; should I toss the disk or scan for bad blocks? 2019-03-16T21:51:18.443

0 How does mkfs -c works 2019-03-25T19:33:22.703

0 How many bad blocks in a HDD is too many? 2019-04-23T11:11:30.663

0 How to emulate disk partition bad blocks in a test file? 2019-05-30T06:15:24.403

0 badblocks is taking ages - what am I doing wrong? 2019-08-12T00:15:36.663

0 How likely is the last block of a drive to be a bad sector? 2019-11-29T21:44:29.623

0 Strange HDDSCAN results, consecutive bad blocks 2020-02-21T07:27:12.933

0 Drive End-to-End_Error FAILING_NOW, yet passes badblocks and smartctl 2020-02-29T10:02:53.020

-1 Debugging a badblock case, advice? 2013-04-02T03:15:52.580

-1 What is AdBlock blocking on my website? 2017-02-17T21:07:45.910

-1 Badblocks reports "weird value (4294967295) in do_write" when writing patterns 2018-04-03T01:18:41.273

-2 Accumulate all bad blocks and install OS in clean partition 2015-04-10T15:58:18.483

-2 How do Zero-Fill, Full Format, and CHKDSK fix bad sectors? 2016-11-01T07:38:52.823