Am 21.01.2010, 08:12 Uhr, schrieb Jo Even Skarstein <joska@online.no>:
What do you want to check on an empty drive?You would probably want to check your data *before* you back it up. I used to do the same as you - backing up the partition, wipe it (but
... Ah, the old times ;)I've probably made similar experiences (days of constantly dying hard-drives). Since then I
- make incremental backup once a week (so on the average 3 days are lost in case of crash)
- wrote a tool to scan sectors for patterns- let the editor write /* <date> <filename> */ and /* end of <filename> */ every time I write a source-file so I can better collect the lost sectors
But the last two is long ago. I have everything except C: on ext2 or VFAT, and that is quite reliable.
-- Helmut Karlowski