On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, Georg Altmann wrote: > Unfortunately nice people from Redmond can get in your way here.
understatement.... > I > attached the FireWire disk to my desktop, booted Windows XP Now you know why you should NEVER use MS products and operating systems to recover corrupted MS filesystems. > My personal judgment is, that files already got corrupted by Mac OS X > writing to the damaged filesystem and thereby overwriting blocks (clusters? > "chains"? whatever) it mistakenly deemed free, but in reality belonged to > already existing files. Yup. Same problem as happens when Messy-Dog (MS DOS) does it. > Anyway, this teaches us once more, that you should > a) make regular backups (doh!) > b) not rely on external hard disks for this > c) not at all use crappy filesystems such as FAT32 FAT is fine for floppies and that's where it should have stayed. AB ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
