>The platters on a hard drive are of no real meaning to the normal user.
>The formatting done at the factory and by whatever drive setup program
>you use establishes the useable portions of the platters. Any "virtual"
>partitions you may establish and driven primarily by your formating
>program and may or may not coincide with the hardware platter layout.
>
>Ken
>From: Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>If you drop it and have a bad head crash then likely the drive won't spin
>up right etc and all the data will be potentially difficult to recover. If
>you have other partitions and the drive does still spin up then partitions
>that don't include the crashed area could be OK if the drive spins up etc.
Thanks Guys!
I was just under the assumption that there was some hacker
way to select a specific platter to backup/isolate a dupe set of
files from another platter in the event of a hard disk crash,
assuming that such crashes don't affect ALL platters at the same time
and offers you a chance for recovery.
Thanks for straightening me out!
JimWG
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