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Disk Utility changes bad sector counts
I have been monitoring my HDD for a while now and noticed the following related to the amount of Bad sectors shown in the Disk app:
7 Months Ago - Brand new, sparky, Beam me up Scotty!
3 Months Ago - ...
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NTFS Corrupted HDD
I just installed a new HDD in my computer. I booted up and formated it in NTFS and copied about 500 GB of Videos onto it. My computer (few hours later) froze while a was watching a video off that ...
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External Hard Disk not found
My external hard drive is not working. It won't show up and it won't mount. I used lsusb and it said the hard drive exists but when I try to format it I get this error:
Error creating file system: ...
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Daemon is inhibited
i'm having 2047 badblocks in my HDD, and to remove them i'v to make all hdd as ext3 drive and currently my whole hdd is unallocated(free space)...but while creating ext3 partition using Disk utility, ...
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What are the pros and cons of each USB disk format?
In DISK UTILITY when you choose format drive, there are four options. I would like to know what's best and fastest for USB flash drives, USB HDD and any differences between each format type.
The ...
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Cannot boot ubuntu after remove failed data disk (system on different disk)
Our Ubuntu server has four hard disks, but we didn't make them a RAID. Yesterday, one of the disk was reported to be failing, and this disk was /dev/sdb and was mounted as /data (was used to store ...
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Problem accessing second hard disk with Squeezebox server
I have recently re-purposed my old desktop PC as a 'server' running Ubuntu LTS 12.04. I want to use the machine as my primary squeezebox server in place of my HTPC MacMini (to reduce the strain on the ...
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Error mounting an external HDD [duplicate]
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How to mount an external HDD?
I want to mount an external HDD.I have tried many things but still no success.When i try to mount it from Disk Utility i get this error:
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Why does Disk Utility show 8 bad sectors on a 2-months old harddrive?
I have recently changed my harddrive and Disk Utility already gives me this message that I have 8 bad sectors and that it is sign of imminent disc failure. It counts 8 bad sectors and I really dont ...
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SMART Status Data Interpretation - Disk Utility
Last week my external harddisk (Seagate Barracuda 1.5TB in a custom enclosure) showed signs of failure (Disk Utility SMART Pre-failure status - several bad sectors) and I decided to change it. I ...
