Running CHKDSK correctly – Windows can corrupt data if you are not careful with CHKDSK

July 14, 2008
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All too often I see the same scenario “I ran CHKDSK and now my data is corrupt”. The wrong way The hard disk is physically failing, and you let CHKDSK /R or CHKDSK /F run on it. Running CHKDSK on a failing hard drive is basically suicide for your data. CHKDSK is not a data [...]

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Very expensive problem unique to external hard disks

July 1, 2008
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Ordinarily, only about 1% of hard disks are affected by a motor seizure failure. However, we see a trend where a large number of problems with external HDDs wind up with this very expensive problem. This is an abnormal trend and there is only one factor that significantly increases its likelihood of occurrence. External hard [...]

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