First post, by Zup
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So my laptop hard disk developed a bad block, at 48% from beginning. That disk containt LOTS of compressed files that holds firmware and tools, and I'd like to know if some of them are damaged.
The laptop has a standard Windows 7 installation (small hidden partition + big system/data partition), so I'd like to get...
- A tool that can check recursively the compressed files in a tree (zip/7z) and tell me which files are corrupt.
- A tool that can map a physical damaged block to a file (or disk area, like boot, MFT, FAT), so I can know which file(s) are damaged. It should support disks with more than one partitions, and various kinds of filesystems (ext, NTFS, FAT). I know that ddrescue can do the trick, but it needs to make an image from disk (that takes some time) to log the bad blocks and I already know which blocks are bad.
- A tool that can make a file that is placed directly over a physical block. I know that it's not a good idea keep using a disk with bad blocks, but I'd like to make sure that system won't write valuable data over a known bad block before I replace it. It should support the more than one partition, and at least FAT and NTFS filesystems.
Thanks in advance.
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