Re: ScanDisk, lost cluster
On Sun, 9 Mar 2008 15:37:27 +0200, "SANTANDER"
<santander@microsoft.news> wrote:
>Some applications hung up, so I restarted computer. After restart, system
>start ScanDisk to check hard drive for errors. In log file, there was some
>info:
>
>File system: There was one lost cluster. ScanDisk reclaimed the lost cluster
>as free space.
>
>Does this mean logical error, not physical damage of disk surface? Is it
>safe for hard drive?
>Does it possible find the damaged file and remove it?
>
>How to make Thorough test without fixing anything?
I too wanted and still would like to run through all the testing
before fixing anything, but with time I've gotten a lot more
confidence in Scandisk, and drives are so large that I no longer want
to take the time to test without fixing.
8 or 10 or more years ago when I was having a lot of crashes and using
versions of Eudora email that didnt' do well in crashes, I had my
options set to not change lost clusters into free space, but to make
files out of them. Then I would use the List command** to look
quickly at all of the new files, and occasionally I would find whole
mailboxes that either were copies of mailboxes I still had, or in a 3
or 4 cases were THE mailbox, when it was missing from Eudora. In one
or more cases I was able to actually restore the mailbox, and in
others I was able to rename the file and keep my mail all in one
sequential file, not easy to use but better than nothing in case I
needed it.
**part of Norton DOS and I forget the real name under which it is
marketed. Why a command or program like this isn't available from
other writers I don't know. Without List or the equivalent, browsing
say 100 big files is very time consuming. "List" is a DOS command
that doesn't provide the ability to edit, so there is no need to copy
the file to a work area, which takes a lot of time. And it doesn't
care what the extension is, or have any tendency to look at a file in
a web broswer or .gif editor. It just looks at the raw data,
simultaneously in hex and in display mode or whatever the opposite of
hex is. One can just look at the file where it is, and there is no
limit to the size of the file. So with one finger on the Page Down
button and another on the Escape button, going back and forth from
finger to finger, one can look at 100 megs of data spread over 200
files in 10 minutes or less.
Eventually I learned more about how data is stored and that much that
looked like I needed it was just a copy of what I still had. But I
would wait a few weeks before doing any of this to see if a mailbox
for example was missing, if I couldn't remember what mailboxes were
open during the crash. But Eudora was been fixed I guess years ago
because this hasn't happened for years, despite some freezes and
crashes. I mention it because you seem like you are interested in
all this nuts and bolts stuff.
But I havent' come across data that I need for years, and, partly
because I don't have List installed on this computer, usually just
wait a month or two to see if anything comes up missing, and then just
delete the files I've created with scandisk, which makes them back
into free space.
>Thanks,
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