[Linux-NTFS-Dev] Help needed resetting bad sector list

[Michael_google g. <key...@gm...>]

I need help resetting a bad sector list for NTFS.

Looking over the archives, I found something from 2005:

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ntfstruncate is in the ntfsprogs package and it isn't compiled and
installed by default. You can create it by additionally issuing a
'make extra' during ntfsprogs build time. The file is
ntfsprogs/.libs/ntfstruncate.

I tested it with your image and it worked. Anyway, have backup.

> any have a simple examples ntfstruncate --badblock=0 /dev/hda1??

You need to enter the below two commands, in the same order:

ntfstruncate /dev/hda1 8 0x80 '$Bad' 0
ntfstruncate /dev/hda1 8 0x80 '$Bad' 41948893696

Then you can use ntfsresize. Also worked for me.
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However, it wasn't clear how much of that is "boilerplate", and how
much was "specific to his disk image".

What numbers do I need to toss at ntfstruncate?
Do I need to send a copy of the meta data?
And why isn't there a tool for this yet?

Michael
p.s. Please CC me directly. Thank you.