How to recover a damaged partition

[Colin Law]

On 22 January 2015 at 04:10, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 7:25 PM, compdoc <compdoc at hotrodpc.com> wrote:
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>> > Any hints, pointers, tutorials, or opinions welcome.
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>> What does smartctl say about the drive? Any reallocated or pending
>> sectors? How many?
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> I'm new to smartctl, so bear with me.  It does say there have been 649
> errors.  I've had the drive
> less than a month.  My guess is that many of them were reads of the bad
> spots before I got them
> overwritten.
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> From my ddrescue run, there appear to be at least 10 spots that are or were
> bad.

The disk is faulty, send it back and get a refund.  Even if you cover
the errors up you will never be able to rely on it.

Colin