On Tuesday, December 2, 2014 8:43:24 PM UTC, cd wrote:
On Tue, 02 Dec 2014 20:08:27 +0000, Tim Watts wrote:

They do have blocks - just like disks, which no longer have "sectors" as
such.

Either way, you've hit bad blocks which will not read - and you've
forced the software to skip them. That's all you can do. You've done the
best you can do...

Run chkdsk on the result to fix up any problems and you'll be OK.

Not to keen on the idea of having a SSD for a system drive. They don't
like too many re-writes, do they...

They are life limited, but the real world life expectancy is beyond any reasonable computer life expectancy. You can happily use ext4 rather than ext2/3.


NT