I just installed Rsyncd on my XP Pro machine and performed a full backup.
Fourty-eight hours later my drive seems hosed. I have run a drive check
and it won't complete, it sticks at 82%. The drive check as finding a
nunmber of bad clusters and repairing files.
To be fair I also allowed the Windows
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> nunmber of bad clusters and repairing files.
>
Bad clusters usually indicate a failing drive.
Doug
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I just installed Rsyncd on my XP Pro machine and performed a full backup.
> Fourty-eight hours later my drive seems hosed. I have run a drive check
> and it won't complete, it sticks at 82%. The drive check as finding a
> nunmber of bad clusters and repairing files.
>
>
On 11/20 05:18 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Anyway...what are the chances that rsyncd was responsible for the drive
> going down by somehow scrambling the data or some other unintended
> problem? Has anybody running rsyncd on XP Pro machines had any other
> problems to report?
BackupPC puts substa
disk failure brought on by stress. thats my diagnostic.
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 8:14 AM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 11/20 05:18 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Anyway...what are the chances that rsyncd was responsible for the drive
> > going down by somehow scramblin
Makes sense. New drive is in now getting formatted. I will of course,
see what I can salvage off the old drive. This computer was a used
computer off ebay and shipped about 6 months ago, it may have had some
head slap in shipping. That is why I think lots of drive activity
causing the existing
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 12:06 PM, Eric Snyder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Makes sense. New drive is in now getting formatted. I will of course, see
> what I can salvage off the old drive. This computer was a used computer off
> ebay and shipped about 6 months ago, it may have had some head slap
