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Re: Write-protect sctors? Aug 30 2006 01:56PM
Andreas Ferrari (aferrari stasoft ch)
Hi scott

Hav you checked your disk?
You can simply do that by booting from a Knoppix CD or something similar
and the just dd the whole disk to /dev/null.
If there is a read error dd wil report it and will abort, if that
happens its better to buy a new disk.

a simple example: dd if=/dev/xdX of=/d...

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