8 Oct
2011
8 Oct
'11
10:12 p.m.
On Saturday 08 October 2011 22:10:36 Timothy Pearson wrote:
Thanks, Tim. I can't afford to not use my main workhorse this week, so I must
just be extra careful with backups of my important data. Would it be likely
to help if I keep the box running permanently instead of shutting down
over-night etc.?
Lisi
On Saturday 08
October 2011 19:41:56 Mag. Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
In my experience if the drive is going to die completely it will do so
without much warning. The bad sectors you are experiencing are more like
a cancer (dying R/W heads, bad disk surface, one or more head crashes in
the past, etc.) and will continue to spread. The less you use the disk
the better, as each write access will likely corrupt more sectors. Well, looks like the harddrive. Get a drive now,
your's could fail any
second.
I have one on order!
Lisi