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Boot off a knoppix CD and "e2fsck -f -c" . You may also want "-y" just
in case it does find something it can fix.


This will check for bad blocks.  This also has found just plain bad
drives before as I've gotten other IO type errors.




Thus spake Christopher Fowler (cfowler at outpostsentinel.com):

> 
> I've got a RH9 system that has begun flaking out on me.  It is not Linux related
> because it does the same in Win98.  I beleive the HDD to be suspect.  Is
> there a way I can test this hdd to see if it is bad?
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