[GRLUG] nonlinux: chkdsk on win

[Eric Beversluis]

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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