On Mandriva and OpenSuse I have no problem dealing with NFTS drives. You could always take it out of the bay...<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">2008/3/17, Claude Felizardo <<a href="mailto:cafelizardo@gmail.com">cafelizardo@gmail.com</a>>:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Matt Campbell <<a href="mailto:dvdmatt@gmail.com">dvdmatt@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br> ><br> > This was sent a couple of weeks ago, but was rejected by the server, anyone<br> > have any suggestions?<br>
><br> > Matt<br> ><br> > From: Matthew Campbell<br> > Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 1:02 AM<br> > To: 'SGVLUG Discussion List.'<br> > Subject: Hard drive question<br> ><br> > I have an interesting problem I have been struggling with.<br>
><br> > I have a 260G LaCie USB drive that I have been using under Windows for some<br> > time.<br> ><br> > I had a data error on it, so I tried to format the drive. I get the message<br> > "Format didn't complete successfully". When I try and copy data to the<br>
> drive I get a "write failed" error around 11% of the way through the copy.<br> ><br> > I can fdisk, mkfs.exxt3 and copy 100Gig to it fine under Linux.<br> ><br> > I can delete that partition under windows, but when I try and create a new<br>
> partition it fails immediately.<br> ><br> > I would like to transfer some video files to a Windows user with this drive.<br> > I could DOS format the drive, but then it couldn't handle the large video<br>
> files.<br> ><br> > I don't think I can format the drive NTFS under Linux.<br> ><br> > As far as I know there is no longer such a thing as a low level hard drive<br> > format.<br> ><br> > So, what are my options?<br>
><br> > Is there a file system I can create under Linux which can handle large files<br> > that the DOS user can read?<br> ><br> > Is there a way to recover this drive so that it can be partitioned or<br> > formatted under Windoze? Would wiping the partition table allow Windows to<br>
> start fresh?<br> ><br> > Is there a utility under Linux that can rescan the drive and mark any new<br> > bad sectors? Is this what could be tripping up the Windows format?<br> ><br> > Thanks in advance for any suggestions.<br>
><br> > Matt<br> <br> <br>I really don't like external USB drives because you can't check the<br> status of the drive. It could be getting soft errors until it runs<br> out of spare sectors then it's toast.<br>
<br> First guess, I'd say windows doesn't like the partition table. What<br> does fdisk -l /dev/sd? report?<br> <br> Using Linux, you could delete all the partitions and then create one<br> big partition and format it and have it check for bad sectors. Use<br>
FAT32. On my desktop here at work, I use partition id 0x0b which<br> fdisk reports as "W95 FAT32". Largest file size for FAT32 is 4 GB I<br> think.<br> <br> Otherwise, you could use Linux to wipe out the partition table or<br>
possibly create the NTFS partition but let windows do the formatting.<br> <br> However its sounds like the drive may have issues. If possible, I'd<br> put it into a desktop and try and use spinrite to perform a low level<br>
format. Catch is it requires DOS/windoze and you must have a valid<br> partition table. I've used it to bring a marginal disk back to life<br> but the drive would usually fail within a few years.<br> <br> I also used to use partition magic 8 (yet another dos/windoze tool)<br>
and it works fine for FAT32 and ext2/3 partitions but it has issues<br> with NFTS. I really wish they'd update that tool but there's been no<br> updates since symantec/norton bought them out.<br> <br> If anyone has used comparable Linux tools, I'd like to hear about it.<br>
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