[ubuntu-in] Trying to install Gutsy, Gparted says bad

[74yrs old]

Try with the Seagate website for diagnostic tool. It will check if there is
any bad sector in HDD and also has tool to restore to factory settings of
the HDD

On Jan 10, 2008 1:32 AM, Dinbandhu <dinbandhu at sprynet.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 00:46 +0530, Vishal Gaurav wrote:
> > Hello,
> > Thanks,
> > You don't maintain here yet, Which brand make your hard disk.
> > Are you downloaded tools from hard disk maker website.
> > I don't figure out, why you having problems with g parted softwares.
> > I was tried it in many many machines, some of them are old and some
> > therm are new too.but i have never any problem with it before!.
> > Ubuntu also uses this software for inbuilt partition tool.
> >
> > Try another windows based software,Hope you get a chance.
>
> I downloaded the hardware diagnostics utility from Dell, and checked the
> hard drive at great length last night. The utility found two bad blocks
> on the drive: block # 5084681, and 5084682. The code of the error
> (0F00:1A44) is for uncorrectable data error. No one at Dell technical
> support could tell me how serious it is i.e. many people have such bad
> blocks on their HD and it goes for many years like that; or instead that
> it could be about to go bad altogether.
>
> I wrote about my problem on the Parted Magic support form, and the
> administrator replied:
>
> "Windows misses bad sectors if you don't do a deep scan. The best
> thing to do is to use the utility for the hard drive from the
> manufacturer. To be 100% sure. You should be able to find it on the dell
> web site.
>
> I have never seen GParted say there was a bad sector if there really
> wasn't.
>
> Resizing a partition from the cli (command line interface) is easy. Read
> the Parted Magic Doc while doing it."
>
> At this point I guess I have two options. Keep the computer as is, and
> try to shrink the partition using the gparted cli in Parted Magic. Or
> call the person who sold me the computer and tell them to give me a
> different one. I would unhesitatingly opt for the latter, but I don't
> know how easy it will be to arrange. And I'm going to India in four days
> and will be bringing the laptop to give it to someone. Anyhow, I'll call
> the seller today and ask them.
>
> But I guess I'd have two questions at this point:
> 1. Does the defect on the HD sound serious? Or instead, incidental and
> probably insignificant?
> 2. Are you familiar with using the cli (command line interface) in
> gparted? Any tips for how to access it or use it?
>
> Many thanks,
> Swarup
>
> P.S. The hard drive is listed in Device Manager as: "HTS548040M9AT00"
>
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