XPost: comp.os.linux.misc   
   From: daniel47@nomail.afraid.org   
      
   On 6/12/2025 11:59 pm, Paul wrote:   
   > 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 ?   
      
   Never got to 'Software' so I just figured it was a screw-up with-in the   
   OS installation.   
      
   > 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 think I still have the Win-7 Installation Disk somewhere here-abouts   
   .... so that could be a possibility .... or I certainly have Linux OS   
   Installations disks so there's another possibility.   
   >   
   > 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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