I'm experiencing a logical (not mechanical) HDD problem where I am not allowed to write a new partition of my secondary hard drive located on /dev/sdb, this error happened days ago while I was trying to stop gnome disk from erasing my empty drive after migrating all of my files locally over my main Linux machine. Unfortunatelly GNOME Disks "lied" and told me the wrong time extimate right when I was about to wipe my own 2 Tib drive, so I ended up trying literally "everything" to stop that process from taking more than five months to complete until I was eventually "forced" to pull out the USB cord from my own PC as a choice of last resort when all commands I've tried failed to put an halt to that lenghty process (please forgive me for my own "recklessness", there was nothing I could have done to stop that process from happening in the first place).
As of now, the following 2 TiB hard drive appears to be viewable on Linux console tools and GNOME disk's graphical interface, I've also tried to check that one out with Gparted but it didn't show up there for some weird unknown reasons. The drive still works and has no visible mechanical damage to it, I can shut it down with GNOME disks just like I would do with other fully-functional drives. no important files where lost back when I first started wiping out that drive since I had already saved most stuff on my machine and I was already in the process preparing my external drive for formatting. The logical error appers to be as follows when I try to create a new filesystem with GNOME disks:
After this "apocalyptic" disaster has struck me, I tried to check out many corners of the net for a possible solution to my problem with no relevant results showing up due to shitty search ranking algortithms, so I tried to ask the AI for help. Not even the AI was able to explain me properly what this Linux logical error even meant so I came up with a different idea instead (more on that later).
The only thing I miss on the Linux world compared to the Windows world is the availability of a tool capable of fixing or remapping bad logical sectors like Victoria disk checker and MHDD. I tried to run Victoria under WINE (flatpak version) to see if I could have use it to fix my "corrupted" HDD but nothing, the external drive wouldn't show up on Victoria due to the lack of priviledged access to all viewable external drives on my Linux machine. Recently, I just found out that there was once a similar tool to Victoria disk checker called "bbf" available on Linux. but it's no longer maintaned as of today.
https://slackbuilds.org/repository/15.0/system/bbf/
https://gitcode.com/gh_mirrors/bb/bbf
As of now, the following 2 TiB hard drive appears to be viewable on Linux console tools and GNOME disk's graphical interface, I've also tried to check that one out with Gparted but it didn't show up there for some weird unknown reasons. The drive still works and has no visible mechanical damage to it, I can shut it down with GNOME disks just like I would do with other fully-functional drives. no important files where lost back when I first started wiping out that drive since I had already saved most stuff on my machine and I was already in the process preparing my external drive for formatting. The logical error appers to be as follows when I try to create a new filesystem with GNOME disks:
After this "apocalyptic" disaster has struck me, I tried to check out many corners of the net for a possible solution to my problem with no relevant results showing up due to shitty search ranking algortithms, so I tried to ask the AI for help. Not even the AI was able to explain me properly what this Linux logical error even meant so I came up with a different idea instead (more on that later).
The only thing I miss on the Linux world compared to the Windows world is the availability of a tool capable of fixing or remapping bad logical sectors like Victoria disk checker and MHDD. I tried to run Victoria under WINE (flatpak version) to see if I could have use it to fix my "corrupted" HDD but nothing, the external drive wouldn't show up on Victoria due to the lack of priviledged access to all viewable external drives on my Linux machine. Recently, I just found out that there was once a similar tool to Victoria disk checker called "bbf" available on Linux. but it's no longer maintaned as of today.
https://slackbuilds.org/repository/15.0/system/bbf/
https://gitcode.com/gh_mirrors/bb/bbf
Last edited by Drapion79,
I'm pretty sure things like this are not even supposed to work on Wine. Pretty sure accessing HDDs this way requires being root on Linux.
hdparm is dangerous if you don't know what you're doing, so please read the manual. I wrote these commands down from my memory and they might be wrong! 
