Ok. When you said writing I thought you meant if files were being
transferred to the hard drive.
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----- Original Message -----
From: bigd <[email protected]
To: jessica <[email protected]
Date sent: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 23:40:08 -0400
Subject: Re: [Braillenote] External hard drive.
Hi,
By writing I mean if the actual drive is messing with the disks
(if it's clicking). It would depend on the kind of damage.
Anything from a simple scandisk to full-blown and
equally full-priced recovery solutions like SpinRite. It
generally shouldn't be that bad, though.
BTW, maybe it's just me, but I learned not to trust the manuals
on defragmenting. They say you can just cancel a disk defrag
anytime with no damage. A scandisk wouldn't fix
that one. Nothing would recognize it, or could mount it. A free
tool based on reverse-engineering the filesystem was able to find
and fix the problem within about 2
seconds, with no data loss. A free, open source tool, not one of
the official Microsoft ones! Tee hee.
Thanks,
KJ4UFX
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On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 08:19:47PM -0700, jessica wrote:
Usually if I reset the BrailleNote with the hard drive plugged
in it is because the BrailleNote froze during reading or writing
to the hard drive. What I mean is that sometimes the unit is in
the middle of a reading or writing session and it just locks up
and does nothing. I know it has stopped working because the
progress beeps stop and pressing space with h does nothing and
pressing space with e also does nothing. But even when the
BrailleNote locks up, I can still hear the hard drive spinning.
I never do a reset with the hard drive plugged in unless I have
to. If it ever happens that my filesystem gets corrupted then
what fancy tools were you talking about? Just in case. I have a
lot of files and I am not interested in losing them.
sent from my BrailleNote
----- Original Message -----
From: bigd <[email protected]
To: jessica <[email protected]
Date sent: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 23:03:26 -0400
Subject: Re: [Braillenote] External hard drive.
Hi,
If you have to, I'd recommend waiting until it stops writing to,
or reading from the disks. If the drive actually spins down,
that's a plus. You shouldn't lose any data
then, but if you reset it or unplug while the drive is actually
writing... One small mistake can corrupt a whole filesystem such
that you need fancy tools to either get
your files back or fix it.
Thanks and HTH,
KJ4UFX
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On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 03:58:53PM -0800, jessica wrote:
Hi. I have an external usb hard drive for my bn. It does have
moving parts. It gets it's power from the bn's usb ports. It
takes 2 ports. I am wondering. If I press reset while the hard
drive is plugged in to the bn, Will I lose any data from the
hard
drive and if I will then how much will be lost? Also will it be
a
whole folder lost or just a file or 2 from out of a folder? I
try not to hit reset with my hard drive plugged in to my bn but
sometimes my bn locks up while copying files and I have to
reset
it. And can pressing reset while the hard drive is plugged in
make my files get corrupted? Would it be better to unplug the
hard drive before resetting even if a file copy process is in
progress instead of resetting with it plugged in? How would
leaving it plugged in during the reset vs unplugging it before
the reset effect my data? Thanks.
sent from my BrailleNote
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