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...a. Otherwise, it's file system metadata or a system binary. If you get nothing but an I/O error, then it's lost so it doesn't matter what it is, you can definitely overwrite it. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda seek=17066160 count=1 If you want an extra confirmation, you can first do 'smartctl -t long /dev/sda' and then after the prescribed testing time, which is listed, check it again with 'smartct -a /dev/sda' and see if the test completed, or if under self-test log section, it shows it was aborted and lists a number under the LBA_of_first_error column. > But I don...

...9200 4196351 1048576 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda3 4196352 468862127 232332888 83 Linux But I don't know where it is in relation to the way the drive was formatted in my notebook. I think it would have been in the / partition. > And what do you get for > smartctl -x <dev> About 17KB of output? I don't know how to read what it is saying, but noted in the beginning: Write SCT (Get) XXX Error Recovery Control Command failed: scsi error badly formed scsi parameters Don't know what this means... BTW, the system is a Cubieboard2 armv7 SoC ru...