Okay, after Go Boom! I have a disk muttering about suicide. What you would suggest I use to test it to see if that's just a glitch or it's really heading south?
Also, it is the "factory image" disk, 500 gig, and I'm doing a backup with Windows' backup software. If it turns out to actually be bad I'll replace it with a 3T and partition that one so one partition can be used for the "factory image" area. If that makes sense. Does it?
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Re: Testing HDD and backup-restore options?
get yourself a linux live CD and run badblocks. If it is developing bad sectors it will tell you where they are and you can hide them. As a sidenote if it is developing bad sectors back it up ASAP. You can patch them up for a bit but the drive is on it's way out.
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Re: Testing HDD and backup-restore options?
Just finished backing it up. It can go to hell quietly now. chkdsk /f pends for it.Azathoth wrote:get yourself a linux live CD and run badblocks. If it is developing bad sectors it will tell you where they are and you can hide them. As a sidenote if it is developing bad sectors back it up ASAP. You can patch them up for a bit but the drive is on it's way out.
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if you are going to replace get yourself a solid state drive. Just use it for your OS and programs. Keep all your data on another drive. It will make the standard drive last longer and speed your machine up by a considerable margin
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Re: Testing HDD and backup-restore options?
This one is the backup drive for the machine, I'd have to jigger things around to get the 3T to be the OS and programs drive. Data is far and away the biggest slow-down on this system, some of my OCR files run over a gigabyte.Azathoth wrote:if you are going to replace get yourself a solid state drive. Just use it for your OS and programs. Keep all your data on another drive. It will make the standard drive last longer and speed your machine up by a considerable margin
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Re: Testing HDD and backup-restore options?
Use one partition on a disk for the system files - i.e., Windows and application programs. Even with Windows 7 bloat, you shouldn't need more than 50 GB. That can then be backed up in full by itself to preserve your "system state".
The data you put on other partitions/disks, and back those up according to whatever strategy best suits. Some important things like bookmarks, etc. will still be on the system drive, so those should be regularly backed up separately. I just export them, and copy them to a data partition, from where they get backed up.
BTW, 32-bit systems might have a problem with drives > 2 TB, but IIRC you're using Windows 7 64-bit.
The data you put on other partitions/disks, and back those up according to whatever strategy best suits. Some important things like bookmarks, etc. will still be on the system drive, so those should be regularly backed up separately. I just export them, and copy them to a data partition, from where they get backed up.
BTW, 32-bit systems might have a problem with drives > 2 TB, but IIRC you're using Windows 7 64-bit.
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Re: Testing HDD and backup-restore options?
Yeah, 64-bitch system.klr wrote:Use one partition on a disk for the system files - i.e., Windows and application programs. Even with Windows 7 bloat, you shouldn't need more than 50 GB. That can then be backed up in full by itself to preserve your "system state".
The data you put on other partitions/disks, and back those up according to whatever strategy best suits. Some important things like bookmarks, etc. will still be on the system drive, so those should be regularly backed up separately. I just export them, and copy them to a data partition, from where they get backed up.
BTW, 32-bit systems might have a problem with drives > 2 TB, but IIRC you're using Windows 7 64-bit.
However, given that I have to replace that drive, and thus will have another bay freed up in the process, I may go for a pair to 2Ts.
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