For what it's worth.................... I always partition my drive where I separate the OS and programs from data.(anything to do with Fox, emails, docs, xls etc etc After doing so, and installing the OS and programs, I create an image file of the 1st partition. I even do this for my clients who buy hardware from me. Even if there's only 1 bad sector, I reject the drive
I don't care if there's faulty components in my system but the hard drive is sacrosanct. It must be perfect. That's where my LIFE is. It simplifies my other life. Backups are easy this way Cheers Sytze On 11/1/07, Vince Teachout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Peter Cushing wrote: > > I would take it that the hard disk contents were toast and reformat it. > > I probably wouldn't even trust the hard disk again after a failure as > > they are so cheap. > > Eh... I'm not quite that desperate, yet. I HAVE already made a complete > backup of everything, just in case, and plan to make a DD image this > weekend. I'm pretty sure though that Spinrite fixed the problem, and > marked the sectors unusable. Disks are cheap, but it's the days of time > required to move everything over to a new hard drive that I would > dread. :-) > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
