[ubuntu-uk] Hard drive- Bad sectors

[Alan Pope]

On 16 April 2010 12:54, javadayaz <javadayaz at gmail.com> wrote:
> Quote my brother:
>  "I don't think it's a sector issue because its practically impossible for
> every sector to have become corrupt overnight. Rather, I think the mbr may
> have got corrupted somehow and needs to be rebuilt but that wud need to wipe
> the whole thing. Is there a recover utility that could build it leaving what
> was there before intact?"
>

I would refer him to:-
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
and specifically..
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/Damaged_Hard_Disk

Rather than leap to possible solutions such as "wipe the mbr", I'd
recommend more diagnostics.

Cheers,
Al.