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My laptop dropped on a concrete floor and it seams hda1 has several blocks that've gone bad, but every time i try to install slackware it seams that files get put on those blocks. is there a way to format it with ext2, or ext3 and check the file system completely marking bad blocks so that they will not be written to then reinstall slackware?
Oddly enough, you can use "badblocks"; see the link from googling "mark bad blocks linux" http://www.snow.nl/dist/htmlc/ch03s02.html
Run it from the install disk as a "live CD" prior to installation of the OS.
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