manually mark/add badblocks in ntfs

qrange · 08-29-2020, 04:53 AM

is there a way to manually mark or add badblocks in ntfs?
in this case, badblocks seem to be grouped, so I'd like to add some more without re-partitioning.
thanks.

teckk · 08-30-2020, 03:30 PM

ntfsprogs which contains ntfsfix is in ntfs-3g. There is also fsck.ntfs.

The best way to fix a ntfs volume is to stick it into a Microsoft machine. That is one thing that Microsoft does well, fix it's own proprietary file system.

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so I'd like to add some more

What do you mean you want to add some bad blocks?

qrange · 08-30-2020, 04:37 PM

I'd like to add surrounding blocks, to try and prevent head using that area. hoping it would prevent new badblocks.
in other words, I need to mark some blocks from a list used and unmovable.

teckk · 08-30-2020, 05:24 PM

man badblocks
Part of e2fsprogs
https://linux.die.net/man/8/badblocks

https://superuser.com/questions/2337...drive-in-linux