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On 20 Sep 2009, at 01:01, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann |
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> <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> <SNIP> |
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>> seriously, I think you should try to get off everything you want to |
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>> keep - and |
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>> then replace the disk with a new one. If a disk starts throwing |
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>> block errors |
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>> it will only become worse. Don't worry about 'repairing' the file |
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>> system as |
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>> long as there is hardware damage. Try to get off the disk as much |
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>> as possible - |
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>> and then scrap it. |
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> I suspect you're right. It's just another $100 to go buy a new one.... |
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> Anyway, I'll see what I can set up to save the files that are still |
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> there. |
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Although he seems to be demonstrating in this thread an inability to |
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snip long sections of quoted text, leaving the reader with many lines |
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of irrelevance to scroll through, I agree with Volker. |
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If the drive fails you're going to be spending $100, anyway. If it |
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fails without having been replaced & your data pulled off it then you |
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could find yourself floating down Effluent River and unable to start |
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your outboard. |
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I think this drive is quite likely to fail catastrophically, from my |
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experience of having seen similar errors in the past. I really |
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wouldn't trust this drive with important data right now. If you get |
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your data off it and replace it in it's current capacity, there's |
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nothing stopping you using it as a secondary drive in the future; I |
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wouldn't trust it with important data right now, but if it's still |
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chugging away in 6 months time then you can probably begin to have |
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faith in it. Once you've gotten your data off the drive it wouldn't do |
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any harm to format it nice with a clean filesystem; and writing a |
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bunch of big unimportant files on the drive (e.g. `dd if=/dev/zero of=/ |
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mnt/sda1/foo`) might allow it to map away a bunch of bad sectors. |
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But right now you should probably act like the drive is definitely |
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hosed. I don't think you should be saying "oh, this might cost me |
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$100, I hope it doesn't" - you should be saying "s#!t d@mn! I had to |
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buy a new hard-drive. But at least my data's ok". |
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But maybe data isn't as important to you as it is to me. Relying on |
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this drive for the backups of your Windows machines right now would be |
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a mockery; around here sod's law would conspire for me to need one of |
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those backups, were I to continue using a drive showing errors like |
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this. I write as a guy you just bought yet another 500gb drive on |
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Friday; I would too have preferred not to spend that money, but |
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experience shows that frugality can sometimes be a mistake. |
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Stroller. |
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