[SOLVED] Surface scan of Mac mini hard drive using linux badblocks?

[OldSurferDude]

I am not a Mac person, yet I was asked to fix a Mac Mini. It starts the boot process but eventually reports that there was an error in the boot process and reboots. It was reported that the unit was dropped. I suspect the hard drive has bad blocks.

I removed the hard drive and made it into an external hard drive for my linux system. I executed the command "sudo badblocks -v /dev/sdb >/tmp/BadSectors" This resulted in nearly every block on the drive was bad. One of two things, the drive is toast or the results of badblocks are not valid for a Mac disk.

Is it the latter?

 

[popatim]

Badblocks should work fine so the drive probably has a damaged head or two.

 

[OldSurferDude]

Badblocks should work fine so the drive probably has a damaged head or two.

Thanks!