On Tuesday, August 23, 2005, 18:30:35, Nick Dutton wrote: > Assuming that your bases were corrupted because Windows had not > written its cached image of your files to disk when the PC died, you > could perhaps disable "write caching" on the external drive? > It's under the disk's properties, then Hardware->Properties->Policies.
Write caching is automatically disabled for USB hard drives, unless you specifically enable it in the disk properties in Device manager. Problem is that these USB drives usually use FAT32 filesystem, which will almost certainly zero out files that were opened at the time of power loss. -- < Jernej Simoncic ><><><><>< http://deepthought.ena.si/ > Celibacy is not hereditary. -- First Law of Socio-Genetics ________________________________________________ Current version is 3.51.10 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
