On Jun 16, 2010, at 5:41 PM, Mark Sokolovsky wrote:
The area which had bad sectors was quarantined into a different sector, and now, i lost all my data. My backups were on that hdd too.
Never, EVER EVER treat a partition on the same drive as a 'backup'. You essentially had two copies of all your eggs in that one basket. Don't call it a backup, don't think of it as a backup and you won't get burned.
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