further to my plaintive cry for help re dodgy external drives ...
Monday, June 18th, 2007 02:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tamaranth... apparently the way to force file check and recovery is to let the external drive completely b0rk windoze. Then let it chug merrily through its 65K sectors, finding many of 'em unreadable. Then let it attempt to fix the problems.
You are unlikely to retrieve a single file in return for hours of watching very slow progress. But you will have the satisfaction of knowing that Windoze tried really hard to get things back.
The next person who tries to tell me that external drives are a good thing and a suitable backup medium will be bashed with one of my new external-drive-shaped paperweights, and treated to an exhaustive catalogue of what I think is on them.
Tesco 100-CD-Rom-for-£4.99, here I come.
You are unlikely to retrieve a single file in return for hours of watching very slow progress. But you will have the satisfaction of knowing that Windoze tried really hard to get things back.
The next person who tries to tell me that external drives are a good thing and a suitable backup medium will be bashed with one of my new external-drive-shaped paperweights, and treated to an exhaustive catalogue of what I think is on them.
Tesco 100-CD-Rom-for-£4.99, here I come.
