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Two years ago I took my hard drive and zero-d out the drive using dd. However, I was a little impatient so I cancelled out the process and restarted the computer. The result is that I got an Input-Output error. Are there any solution to check and fix these errors?

edit 1: I did sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb to zero out the drive. I cancelled when it performed the action for 5 minutes.

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  • Input-output errors occurs due to damaged parts in hard-drives,They aren't any way concerned to dd command, it is just used to copy, it is very similar to cp command but dd never bothers about security or permissions of certain file, it just does everything under low-level bits,i.e., it copys in terms of bits.
    – user495867
    May 13, 2016 at 12:31
  • @looserof7 I don't think it's a hardware error. Like, I cancelled the dd progress and all I did next was restart the computer. After that I can't boot into the drive anymore. Also I have another drive that suffered the same thing when I corrupted dd but it's a USB one.
    – diamondburned
    May 13, 2016 at 12:33
  • But you see it still in the device list? Try doing a complete and clean new ddon it if.
    – Videonauth
    May 13, 2016 at 12:35
  • what have you done with dd command, did you copy something to hard-drive or hard-drive partition. Can you modify your question by specifying what command you have used.
    – user495867
    May 13, 2016 at 12:36
  • @looserof7 I zero-d out the drive
    – diamondburned
    May 13, 2016 at 16:16

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As you can see the drive still in Gparted, you can go on and create a new partition table for it by starting gParted and then choose the proper device, go to the menu bar and click on Devices --> create partition table as format you can choose msdos afterwards build your partitions like you want and apply it.

Hope this will work for you.

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  • The drive IS in GParted but the error says No.
    – diamondburned
    May 13, 2016 at 16:25

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