Hi Robert, On Sunday 15 August 2010 06:46 PM, Robert Nichols wrote: > Your problem is the 172 sectors pending reallocation. Those are sectors > that are currently unreadable and will be reallocated to spare sectors > the next time they are written. The problem is that the drive has no > way to know whether the current contents are important (part of some > file, or file system metadata) or irrelevant (part of file system free > space), so the drive_must_ continue to return an error on any attempted > read of those sectors. > > The most straightforward way to recover is to back up all of the data > now on the drive while making note of any files that have read errors, > write zeros to the entire drive, then re-make the file system(s) and > restore the data, hopefully having some other source for any important > files that could not be read when backing up. Thank you for the advise. I used the disk diagnostic tool provided by WD to check and fix errors on the disk. It seemed to reduce the Current_Pending_Sector count from 172 to 78. I will take up on your suggestion over the next weekend. Thanks a lot again. -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
