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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>This was sent a couple of weeks
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Matt<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Matthew Campbell <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, February 25, 2008 1:02 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'SGVLUG Discussion List.'<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Hard drive question<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>I have an interesting problem I have been struggling with.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>I have a 260G LaCie USB drive that I have been using under
Windows for some time.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>I had a data error on it, so I tried to format the
drive. I get the message “Format didn’t complete successfully”.
When I try and copy data to the drive I get a “write failed” error
around 11% of the way through the copy.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>I can fdisk, mkfs.exxt3 and copy 100Gig to it fine under
Linux.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>I can delete that partition under windows, but when I try
and create a new partition it fails immediately.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>I would like to transfer some video files to a Windows user
with this drive. I could DOS format the drive, but then it couldn’t
handle the large video files.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>I don’t think I can format the drive NTFS under Linux.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>As far as I know there is no longer such a thing as a low
level hard drive format.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>So, what are my options?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Is there a file system I can create under Linux which can
handle large files that the DOS user can read?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Is there a way to recover this drive so that it can be
partitioned or formatted under Windoze? Would wiping the partition table
allow Windows to start fresh?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Is there a utility under Linux that can rescan the drive and
mark any new bad sectors? Is this what could be tripping up the Windows
format?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Thanks in advance for any suggestions.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Matt<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>--
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</span><b><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:#505050'>Matthew Campbell </span></b><span style='font-size:8.5pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>| <b><span style='color:#505050'>Chief
Technical Officer<br>
Imagination Games<br>
</span></b><span style='color:#505050'>3330 Cahuenga Blvd. West #505<br>
Los Angeles, CA 90068<br>
</span><span style='color:#4F4F4F'>323.850.9166 x225 (O)<br>
323.850.9179 (F)<br>
</span><span style='color:#505050'>818.314.9897 (M)<br>
</span><u><span style='color:blue'><a
href="mailto:matt.campbell@imaginationgames.com">matt.campbell@imaginationgames.com</a><br>
</span></u><span style='color:#505050'><a
href="http://www.icandyinteractive.com/">www.imaginationgames.com</a></span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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