Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 14:13:49 From: "neil barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: BIOS hibernate on big HDD [LIB]
>Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 15:53:15 +0700 >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: BIOS hibernate on big HDD [LIB] > > 3) Just because the scandisk/whatever finds the HD to be intact doesn't > > mean the data is. > >Yes, I found this - after hibernating, scandisk/whatever often declared the >partition in which the hibernation data had overwritten the test data to be >problem free - but the test data was thoroughly trashed, even though the >file names, sizes, and all the other file details were intact. Scan disk only checks that the appropriate pointers in the file allocation table, and that they link properly, then it checks that the directory entries are correct. If there isn't a directory entry where the disk gets thumped by the bios, it simply won't show until you try and use the data. > >If you don't reserve the relevant space, you could well have significant >data corruption and not realise it until much later. Quite :( _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
