On Monday 15 November 2010 15:50:37 Jacob Todd wrote: > Sounds like something is wrong with te drive, and spinrite.can probably fix > it.
I don't see what Spinrite can do to help with defragging a harddrive for MS Windows? I like the bit where it explains "how it prevents a disk crash": "It first reads the data out of a region, then exercises that region with patterns of data that SpinRite has determined are the most difficult for the drive to read and write. In this way, any weak and failing areas within the region are located and removed from use while none of the drive's original data is being stored there. Only after the region has been made absolutely safe, will the drive's original data be restored to that area. " (quoted from the website for Spinrite: http://www.grc.com/sroverview.htm ) supposedly this is "unique" (Just hope the system doesn't freeze up or the power goes while it's doing this....) How is this different from: 1) take a backup 2) check for bad sectors (badblocks) 3) restore backup This is also less risky as the data is backed up somewhere safe -- Joost > > On Nov 15, 2010 9:16 AM, "Mick" <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 15 November 2010 13:13, Jacob Todd <jaketodd...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> You might want to run spinrite on the drive if you have/can find a copy > > of > > >> it. > > > > Why? > > > > -- > > Regards, > > Mick
