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linux is often better at mounting slightly corrupted ntfs (and fat)
filesystems. when i've run into this in the past, i dd the entire
partition to a file, then fsck/mount the file as a loopback device
to recover the data (which is pretty much what you've done). <br>
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if the SMART tools say it's failing, zeroing it out won't help it
any - though it might cause it to flag more failing sectors (as it
hits them while zeroing them out). that might make the drive usable
for a while (those sectors will be marked unusable), but in my
experience once a large number of sectors start going bad it's time
to get rid of the drive.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 14-02-12 10:27 AM, Murray Strome
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I have an external USB hard drive that is probably failing. I can
mount it OK in LINUX, but not in Windows. If I use the smart drive
test in LINUX disk utility, it says "failed". The particular item
is that it had gone over temperature at some time in the past. It
also has several bad sectors.<br>
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I am copying all of the data over to another drive now. The next
steps I propose to do are:<br>
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<li>write zeroes to the whole drive using the disk utility</li>
<li>create a new partition table</li>
<li>format the drive (NTFS)</li>
<li>see if the smart test still fails.</li>
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<p>If 4. above, then next step will be to see if it is still under
warranty (it is well over two years old), and if so, what I can
do to get it replaced. If not, I guess all I can do is "shred"
the disk to make certain everything is wiped out, take it for
recycling but keep the case to use with other internal SATA hard
drives that I have around. If it passes, then I can start using
it as a fresh device.<br>
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<p>Anyone else experience this kind of problem and if so, what did
<i>YOU</i> do?<br>
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<p>Thanks,<br>
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<p>Murray<br>
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