The only problems I have had with huge drives (>500G) is when I create FAT32 partitions far larger than officially supported and then try to use it via on heterogeneous systems (linux/mac/windows).. I bought a cheap terabyte drive a couple months ago ($CAN 85), set it up via LVM as ext3. It is now the primary drive of my much abused personal dev box and I have had no issues at all.
I'm not a windows guy, so I haven't tried any such thing with NTFS.. I think NTFS should be able to handle huge drives but I not exactly up-to-date there. - michael 2009/10/6 Björn Helgason <[email protected]>: > I was thinking about doing just that but then I decided to take the > drive back to the store and ask them to fix it. > > I guess I will get a new drive - it is only one month old. > > One problem I have discovered earlier with NTFS is that if it is > formatted with quick option - they have probably done that in the > store - then the format process will not check the drive and there may > have been a lot of bad sectors on it. > > The interesting part was the sector 0 where $Mft is/was was also bad. > Also strange was that the drive just disappeared without warning and > nothing appeared in any form of message nor anything saying what > was/is wrong. > > Also I have never before had such a big NTFS disk and having so many > files both big and small on it. > > Some of the files are bigger than FAT accepts. > > The files are mostly movies and also a lots of music files. > The indexes in the $Mft are 31824 > > I guess I could have continued to use the drive with less amount of > data and fewer files but as it is still brabd new i want the store to > fix it or at least give me a new one and have it working. > > I guess that cheap 500G and 1T USB drives may not always be all good > and probably not meant to be filled - at least not while the warranty > is still valid. > > 2009/10/6 Michael Dykman <[email protected]>: >> I would be inclined to get access to an up-to-date linux system, mount >> that drive read-only, and explore/export from there.. MS operating >> systems can't seem to stop them selves from modifying drive contents >> even when 'reading' >> >> - michael dykman >> >> 2009/10/3 Björn Helgason <[email protected]>: >>> I have a 500G USB disk with 31.284 indexes in the $Mft. >>> >>> http://www.ntfs.com/ntfs-mft.htm >>> >>> There are around 9G free on the disk but there are bad sectors on the disk. >>> >>> Problem is it seems that the $Mft has bad sectors so I am having >>> problems with getting at the files. >>> >>> The problem is acting very strange and sometimes I can connect the >>> disk and investigate the directory and sometimes it just disappears. >>> >>> I have used explorer, disk management and DOS command prompt and it >>> behaves differently in between environments. >>> I can sometimes see the disk and directories in DOS and not in disk >>> management nor explorer and in a program for open files I can still >>> see the files and even open files. >>> >>> I have tried chkdsk a few times and the first time it claimed to be >>> moving files out of bad sectors including the $Mft but since then no >>> errors reported. >>> >>> It looks like the $Mft needs to be in sector 0 but I have seen a >>> reference of suggesting that I move the $Mft to another place but I >>> have not seen how I should do that and that brings me to the question. >>> >>> Does anyone reading this have a suggestion what to try to get a >>> working $Mft and how to move it if possible? >>> >>> I do not yet have a spare disk to make a backup of these files and I >>> actually am not sure if or how I could make a copy of the files >>> without a working $Mft file. >>> >>> -- >>> Björn Helgason, Verkfræðingur >>> Fugl&Fiskur ehf, >>> Þerneyjarsundi 23, Hraunborgum >>> Po Box 127,801 Selfoss , >>> t-póst: [email protected] >>> gsm: +3546985532 >>> Landslags og skrúðgarðagerð, gröfuþjónusta >>> http://groups.google.com/group/J-Programming >>> >>> >>> Tæknikunnátta höndlar hið flókna, sköpunargáfa er meistari einfaldleikans >>> >>> góður kennari getur stigið á tær án þess að glansinn fari af skónum >>> /|_ .-----------------------------------. >>> ,' .\ / | Með léttri lund verður | >>> ,--' _,' | Dagurinn í dag | >>> / / | Enn betri en gærdagurinn | >>> ( -. | `-----------------------------------' >>> | ) | (\_ _/) >>> (`-. 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If they’re any good, >> you’ll have to ram them down their throats! >> >> Howard Aiken >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > > -- > Björn Helgason, Verkfræðingur > Fugl&Fiskur ehf, > Þerneyjarsundi 23, Hraunborgum > Po Box 127,801 Selfoss , > t-póst: [email protected] > gsm: +3546985532 > Landslags og skrúðgarðagerð, gröfuþjónusta > http://groups.google.com/group/J-Programming > > > Tæknikunnátta höndlar hið flókna, sköpunargáfa er meistari einfaldleikans > > góður kennari getur stigið á tær án þess að glansinn fari af skónum > /|_ .-----------------------------------. > ,' .\ / | Með léttri lund verður | > ,--' _,' | Dagurinn í dag | > / / | Enn betri en gærdagurinn | > ( -. | `-----------------------------------' > | ) | (\_ _/) > (`-. '--.) (='.'=) ♖♘♗♕♔♙ > `. )----' (")_(") ☃☠ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm -- - michael dykman - [email protected] Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If they’re any good, you’ll have to ram them down their throats! Howard Aiken ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
