XPost: comp.os.linux.misc   
   From: nospam@needed.invalid   
      
   On Sat, 12/6/2025 7:02 AM, Daniel70 wrote:   
      
   >>   
   > As it is now (or last time I tried months ago), the Linux installation still   
   works ....   
   > but, if I select, in Grub, to run the Win-7 Installation, before I get to   
   the Desktop,   
   > it tells me it is "Deleting Sector 1234567", "Deleting Sector 1234568",   
   > "Deleting Sector 1234569", etc, etc, etc, (sort of thing) .... until I press   
   > a key or hold down the POWER button. So who knows how much of the Win-7   
   system   
   > is still there (I haven't looked at the Win-7 drives from with-in Linux).   
      
   And what piece of software was doing that ?   
      
   That almost sounds like the third-pass recovery thing running,   
   and doing a badblock scan and using $BADCLUS to mark off clusters   
   no longer fit to be used. But that is a stretch because I'd never   
   allow a machine to go that far. I'd boot a DVD and use Troubleshooting   
   and Command Prompt, and work on it there.   
      
   I've run into more than a few people, who will allow their   
   storage to degrade so far, it's almost unrecoverable. Like   
   waiting too long to clone over to a good drive. This is one of   
   the reasons we have backups. So there is a good (but slightly old)   
   copy of the setup, to use in a restore.   
      
      Paul   
      
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