Gary Kjos
garykjos at gmail.com
Tue Feb 12 13:34:08 CST 2008
Hi Fred, Sorry to hear of your hardware problems but it does sound like you are on the road to recovery. I don't have an answer for your question on generational backup solutions or file allocation table recovery solutions. Maybe a reply will keep the thread alive until someone else sees it though ;-) Good luck! GK On 2/12/08, Fred Hooper <fahooper at trapo.com> wrote: > I was preparing to use one of my saved virtual pc's after months of not > using the program. To prepare a new permutation I did a copy/paste of one of > the existing folders. (Oops!) > > After a short wait (during which I didn't kick or jar it) the computer > rebooted and wouldn't start XP. After some flailing, I Checked the disk with > SpinRite and found about 5% unrecoverable data (with ~2 percent that I had > to skip as it estimated 13K hours to recover while working on it) and, after > about 50 hours, am now 56% of the way through the SpinRite run. (A couple of > months ago the disk was clean in the SpinRite run, taking about 18 hours.) > > Most of my files were backed up to another hard drive and/or JungleDisk, so > it hasn't been a disaster -- just a time waster (particularly since I had > used a DOS batch file to do the backup, which copied many both > before-and-after file moves). > > I've now placed a text file in my VPC directory with the name "Don't Copy > These Folders.txt", with an explanation inside. > > It looks like my FAT was also damaged as an important directory (that wasn't > backed up) is missing. I have two requests: > > 1) Recommendations on a FAT-rebuild program that works with NTFS? > > 2) Recommendations on a backup program for copying files (with some > versioning) to a local hard disk. (I saw some nice comments on FileBack PC, > but haven't tried it.) > > Fred > > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > -- Gary Kjos garykjos at gmail.com