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Old 07-05-2004
Bob
 
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Default Re: How can I determine what vfat files own what blocks?

Oops - sorry, I meant ddrescue, not ddrecover...

bobdbitbucket@netscape.net (Bob) wrote in message news:<e6696cf0.0407050550.3a183167@posting.google. com>...
> Hi,
>
> I had a vfat partition develop some bad blocks. I used ddrecover to copy what
> was salvagable (i.e. most of it - 29GB - 32KB) to another disk. It
> encountered 64 bad blocks, and since ddrecover reported the offsets (in
> kbytes) I assume that's easily mapped to block numbers (I'm assuming .5k is
> block 1, 500k is block 1000, etc). So I'd like to know which of the files
> I've "recovered" are actually corrupted because they contained one of the
> bad blocks, so that I can safely delete them.
>
> Does anybody know a good tool for doing this?
>
> Thanks,
> Bob

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