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Disk Utility shows bad sectors in HDD. But GSmartControl, Hiren's Boot CD and a disk check through terminal shows no errors in HDD.

Asked by Ashok Kumar

Disk Utility shows bad sectors in HDD. But GSmartControl, Hiren's Boot CD and a disk check through terminal show no errors in HDD. Please help. I want to know if it's a bug.

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Ashok Kumar (ashokpateer) said : 		#1

root@H430:~# sudo badblocks -v /dev/sda
Checking blocks 0 to 488386583
Checking for bad blocks (read-only test): 0.00% done, 0:00 elapsed. (0/0/0 errdone
Pass completed, 0 bad blocks found. (0/0/0 errors)

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Ashok Kumar (ashokpateer) said : 		#2

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0rSj2uWxdc0bzRhamZ3WTQxMTg/edit?usp=sharing

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Ashok Kumar (ashokpateer) said : 		#3

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0rSj2uWxdc0VlZ6WTR0VFlJbWM/edit?usp=sharing

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Ashok Kumar (ashokpateer) said : 		#4

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0rSj2uWxdc0OWFKUUd6cjU1Skk/edit?usp=sharing

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Ashok Kumar (ashokpateer) said : 		#5

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0rSj2uWxdc0bmZranoybWYtQ1U/edit?usp=sharing

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Ashok Kumar (ashokpateer) said : 		#6

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0rSj2uWxdc0dlpiQVdBLVJCaEU/edit?usp=sharing

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Ashok Kumar (ashokpateer) said : 		#7

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0rSj2uWxdc0Vmw0LXR3WHZfQ3M/edit?usp=sharing

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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#8

Why are you using sudo if you are already root?

If the application is showing incorrect details I suggest you report a bug.

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Ashok Kumar (ashokpateer) said : 		#9

Sorry and thanks.

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Ashok Kumar (ashokpateer) said : 		#10

Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.