Hello Jernej,

On Tuesday, August 23, 2005, you 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.

JS> Write caching is automatically disabled for USB hard drives, unless you
JS> specifically enable it in the disk properties in Device manager. Problem is
JS> that these USB drives usually use FAT32 filesystem, which will almost
JS> certainly zero out files that were opened at the time of power loss.

Ooops, that'll teach me to mix it with the experts!


-- 
 Nick


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