jalirious
July 24th, 2012, 09:50 PM
Hi, I had a idea and wondered if it could be possible.
I cleverly dropped my netbook on the floor. 12.10 still booted, but there was a problem mounting the /home partition (I suspected the head had knocked into the disc).
Tried reinstalling with new partitions - failed due to a HD fault.
What I would like to do is this:
1) Find out at which point of the 0-160gb disc the physical problem lies.
2) Make a slim partition that includes the bad sectors of the disc which is ignored in the subsequent installation.
I am stuck at 1). Any ideas? The position would need to be found by a bootable disc.
I cleverly dropped my netbook on the floor. 12.10 still booted, but there was a problem mounting the /home partition (I suspected the head had knocked into the disc).
Tried reinstalling with new partitions - failed due to a HD fault.
What I would like to do is this:
1) Find out at which point of the 0-160gb disc the physical problem lies.
2) Make a slim partition that includes the bad sectors of the disc which is ignored in the subsequent installation.
I am stuck at 1). Any ideas? The position would need to be found by a bootable disc.