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Repair External Hard Drive with badblocks & fsck

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http://crunchbang.org – thanks my good doctor!no, it's an external hd. the hda1 was just from the other guys quote. on my machine it'sactually sdc.so i cancelled whatever fsck was doing. i reformatted again.(two primary partitions, a 2gb fat32, and 297gb ext3; this is following advice for compatibility with other os. i will install software that can translate ext3 to windows on the small partition)gparted gave no errors on that.now i'm scanning the first vat partition with fsck and badblock both (not mounted) but it seems for vfat/fat32 i can only do itin read-only-mode.anyway badblcks says 0/0/0 error (HowTos)

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