[GRLUG] nonlinux: chkdsk on win

Eric Beversluis ebever at researchintegration.org
Wed May 18 10:11:18 EDT 2011


Results report: I did a clean install of Win 2008 R2 after rebuilding
the partition structure (using the option in the Win 2008 install iso). 

Seems to be running nicely. Ran chkdsk 2x and everything seems fine.

Thanks for the various replies.

On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 16:57 -0400, Michael Mol wrote:
> If replacements are out of the question, I'd suggest dd_rescue to
> recover the data, and then hoping Windows' FS creation utilities check
> and account for bad blocks initially.
> 
> On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Eric Beversluis
> <ebever at researchintegration.org> wrote:
> > Unfortunately the disk does not support SMART monitoring (IBM
> > xSeries336). The Acronis product did show some critical events,
> > including '7' (bad block) and '52' (disk about to fail) (the latter just
> > a while back, not recently).
> >
> > I've been trying to do a disk image using something called
> > Active at DiskImage, and it keeps hanging about 19GB into the 50 or so GB.
> >
> > I did go in and manually copy whatever directories seemed to include
> > data.
> >
> > So now I have to decide whether to reformat this disk and see if it's
> > still any good or just junk it. Problem is, I think I learned a while
> > back that disks for this server are EOL. I do have another one that has
> > some old stuff on it that I could reformat and use.
> >
> > On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 14:19 -0400, Eric Beversluis wrote:
> >> Thanks, all.
> >> I'll give the Acronis version a try.
> >>
> >> On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 14:05 -0400, Philip J. Robar wrote:
> >> > On May 16, 2011, at 1:40 PM, Michael Mol wrote:
> >> >
> >> > > For a 40GB disk, that's probably pushing it. I'd probably run smart on
> >> > > the disk before throwing chkdsk on it any more.
> >> > >
> >> > > You can get smartmontools for Windows; it even works on Vista/Win7.
> >> >
> >> > Aconis (the makers of the excellent True Image program) has a free S.M.A.R.T. monitoring program for Windows:
> >> >
> >> > Acronis Drive Monitor: http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/drive-monitor/
> >> >
> >> > Phil
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
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