Hello Jernej Simoncic,
> Scandisk might have been the culprit - it's not a tool meant for NT/2k/XP
> (though I have a hard time believing it ran at all - unless your disks use
> FAT32).
It was the 'tools' error checking under WinXP Pro. After exiting TB!,
it allowed me to run the error checking.
> Zeroing out the files means that the errors were unrecoverable, though I
> haven't seen this happen on NTFS yet - but it's usual on FAT/FAT32,
> especially if a file was opened while the computer crashed.
The funny thing is, despite giving me the error, I could SEE some
messages in the folder window BEFORE running the error checking.
Unfortunately there was not room on the disk to make backup copies of
the damaged bases. I did not have another external drive available to
do this either :-(
> Anyway, to prevent this from happening in the future, convert your drives to
> NTFS. Not only your data will be safer, Windows will also start up faster.
> To do this, go to Start->Run and run
> CONVERT C: /FS:NTFS /X
The drives are ALL NTFS, and D: is external and is NTFS. Still lost
the files (zeroed out).
> You'll have to reboot, and on startup, Windows will convert your drive to
> NTFS. This can take a while, depending on the number of files on your disk.
The error checking did run on the EXTERNAL disk which houses TB! and
the mail bases, without rebooting (after exiting TB!).
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