Philip Taylor wrote:
HenriK wrote:
Last month, I experienced a PC malfunction on my main PC ...
A delayed-write failure indicates that a serious disk error
occurred, and data was/were lost. Check your Windows logs, identify
the device in question, then disable delayed writes through Control
Panel for that device or its controller. Use whatever tools are
available to you to attempt to recover the data from that disk.
Identify from the logs whether it is terminally ill, and if so,
replace it, re-populating the new drive from backups. Even if it is
not terminally ill, replacing it (or at least putting it into a
RAID-0 configuration) would be wise.
Good points.
The files with lots of zeroes in their names are likely lost clusters
recovered by CHKDSK. They're broken pieces of files, but nowadays I find
myself unable, even with a plain-text editor, to recognize what they are
or where they go. Oh, for the DOS days when you could patch things back
together!
If SeaMonkey won't start, that may well be because the disk error(s)
damaged a critical file. Hard to say which one, though -- probably have
to reinstall after addressing the hardware issue. If you're lucky, only
the program itself was damaged and you can restore the profile.
--
War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left.
--
Paul B. Gallagher
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