/dev/sda slowly dieing??

[Roger Grosswiler]

> Roger Grosswiler wrote:
>> past days, i had several warnings of my backup, it coudln't read some sectors. Is my harddisc slowly dieing or is
>> this
>> another issue? Is there a tool within linux, where i can mark some sectors as defective?
>
> As you've been told, this sounds like a dying drive. Don't trust it: get
> any valuable data off it as soon as you can.
>
> Which brand is it? It might be worth looking to see if the manufacturer
> has any diagnostic software. In my experience, this usually creates a
> bootable floppy which can do some really low-level hunting around: you
> may need to "borrow" a Windows PC to create the floppy.
>
> Good luck!
>
> James.
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it's compaqish and i'm gonna change this asap.

Thx
Roger