How to Check Bad Sectors or Bad Blocks on Hard Disk in Linux

1329

Let us start by defining a bad sector/block, it’s a section on a disk drive or flash memory that can not be read from or written to anymore, as a result of a fixed physical damage on the disk surface or failed flash memory transistors.

As bad sectors continue to accumulate, they can undesirably or destructively affect your disk drive or flash memory capacity or even lead to a possible hardware failure.

[[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Read complete article