Re: How to deal with defect block

Adam Piggott <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.utilities.smartmontools
Organization Proactive Services (Computing)
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 21/07/2014 11:09, bege wrote:
> Thank you very much, Robert and Bruce,
>
> the drive has NTFS file system. On the linked page I didn't find an option
> (maybe I didn't properly understand everything) to enter the defect block
> number and receive the file/directory using that block. Which command does
> that job?

I've sent some instructions and a spreadsheet to do the number crunching by 
personal mail. Sufficed to say my method is a bit of a bodge of Microsoft's 
secinspect.exe to get partition offset, disk and file system block size, 
then some time sifting through Sysinternals' DiskView. I will come up with 
a better way one day!
-- 
Adam Piggott, Proprietor
Proactive Services (Computing)

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