Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E.R." Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Linux PC Acting Up? How To Check For Bad Blocks On A Hard Drive - Before It's Too Late Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2025 14:40:15 +0200 Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: <106ed70$3g63g$1@dont-email.me> <106hsfk$bt9r$1@news1.tnib.de> <106ic3q$d6ma$1@news1.tnib.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net icSNL8HjpsTqgWlhYVz/6gZELtxLj3mX01wsmEcSiiB2hLdot0 X-Orig-Path: Telcontar.valinor!not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZM3UQ8CJHUWIkxX98cX2foTISpw= sha256:Llt/aICMhbtZW+7UoFwlQhPDMgPd/GN5huF6ey3LwpM= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: es-ES, en-CA In-Reply-To: <106ic3q$d6ma$1@news1.tnib.de> Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:70229 On 2025-08-01 14:31, Marc Haber wrote: > "Carlos E.R." wrote: >> On 2025-08-01 10:05, Marc Haber wrote: >>> "Carlos E.R." wrote: >>>> I have a dead Seagate 3TB disk, lost all the data inside. >>> >>> Probably a decade old? >> >> Probably. I think that model was infamous. > > I apologize. I thought that we were talking about practical relevant > cases. I think that Seagate model had many disk failing early. Defective model. But as mine was working fine, I continued using it, till one day it failed completely. Probably a pcb replacement would work, but that's not something I can do. > > I lost 540 MB from a failed Fujitsu drive in 1998 and found out the > backup was invalid the hard way. > -- Cheers, Carlos.