Hello everyone, My thanks to all who offered suggestions. I was unable to complete a chkdsk /f /r. I got in stage 2 I believe index issues, stage 3 orphan file recovery, but in stage 4 filesystem check it never got off zero percent, half an hour in to it the drive started grinding and clicking most unpleasantly. I'm assuming this thing took physical damage in the fall. In answer no I don't have a backup, this drive was my largest I don't have anything bigger to back it up. Recommendations appreciated. Thanks. Dave. On 3/21/12, Brent Harding <brent@hostany.net> wrote:
That's what I was going to say. Steve brought up the idea on a question of accessibility of the program on Security Now and said people have done it, but the little I used DOS in DOS without Windows on top of it, the hardware synths supported by any of them might be hard to come by.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Hodgson" <andrew@hodgsonfamily.org> To: "Blind sysadmins list" <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2012 6:25 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] testing an external drive
Hi,
I used to run Spinrite a lot from a Windows boot disk running Hal Lite with a Juno speech synth and it worked fine. The issue we have now is no support for software synths under DOS, which is what Spinrite runs under.
Andrew.
-----Original Message----- From: blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Barry Toner Sent: 21 March 2012 23:11 To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] testing an external drive
Hi,
I have some private messeges with Steve Gibson and he said that it's just DOS that SR runs in. He reckoned JFW for DOS should load. Though it could have been Free DOS he meant, in which case I'm not sure if a Screen Reader can be ran from.
I'd certainly be interested in any SR walkthroughs, with or without speech.
Cheers, Barry.
-----Original Message----- From: blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Jackie McBride Sent: 21 March 2012 23:03 To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] testing an external drive
Spinrite can test USB drives if your bios is set to support it. Most newer
bioses do now, but the name of the setting differs. However, spinrite, from my experience, at least, wasn't accessible.
There are lots of smart monitoring/diagnostic utils out there. I can't remember which 1 I've used--it's been awhile. Google's your best friend, in case some1 on list can't provide more info--I'm actually headed out now
very quickly so time is at a premium.
First thing I think I'd do is a chkdsk on that drive using the /f & /r options to fix any file system errors/bad sectors.
On 3/21/12, David Mehler <dave.mehler@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
I know about spinrite, but I didn't think that worked on usb-attached external drives.
I've got a terabyte external drive connected by usb, it's an enclosure, but not removable, i.e. the drive came in it and it's sealed not meant to be replaced. This enclosure took a spill and hit a carpeted ground apartment say maybe four feet and it didn't show up for a while. I recycled it, disconnected and reconnected everything, and it shows up but it took what looks like casing damage and I'm hoping it didn't take internal damage, it's not making any noises and it is showing up again, I'd like to know what others use to test their external drives? Also on the subject, is anyone using the network-attached terabyte or greater drive? Which one can be recommended?
Thanks. Dave.
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