From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PI0hk-0002Eu-T4 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 15 Nov 2010 15:10:49 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7CD9EE089A; Mon, 15 Nov 2010 15:10:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpq3.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net (smtpq3.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net [212.54.42.166]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CC0AE07F9 for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2010 15:10:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [212.54.42.141] (helo=smtp10.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net) by smtpq3.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PI0hM-0001ss-CE for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 15 Nov 2010 16:10:24 +0100 Received: from 5ed3454e.cm-7-4b.dynamic.ziggo.nl ([94.211.69.78] helo=data.antarean.org) by smtp10.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PI0hK-0000wI-MT for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 15 Nov 2010 16:10:22 +0100 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29ECE2223 for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2010 16:10:21 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at antarean.org Received: from data.antarean.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (data.antarean.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id n0RcUmQZZr1x for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2010 16:10:20 +0100 (CET) Received: from eve.localnet (eve.lan.antarean.org [10.20.13.50]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AE8151F70 for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2010 16:10:20 +0100 (CET) From: "J. Roeleveld" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [Waaay OT] Defrag tool for windoze Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 16:10:20 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.30-gentoo-r5; KDE/4.4.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <4CE0AF60.3020505@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201011151610.21146.joost@antarean.org> X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-ID: 1PI0hK-0000wI-MT X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-SpamCheck: geen spam, SpamAssassin (niet cached, score=-2.599, vereist 5, autolearn=not spam, BAYES_00 -2.60) X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-From: joost@antarean.org X-Spam-Status: No X-Archives-Salt: c7f50719-8279-4585-ba2d-a9ac709ff3f7 X-Archives-Hash: 3228f79cfad8b76e4bfa7a0869a02511 On Monday 15 November 2010 15:50:37 Jacob Todd wrote: > Sounds like something is wrong with te drive, and spinrite.can probably fix > it. I don't see what Spinrite can do to help with defragging a harddrive for MS Windows? I like the bit where it explains "how it prevents a disk crash": "It first reads the data out of a region, then exercises that region with patterns of data that SpinRite has determined are the most difficult for the drive to read and write. In this way, any weak and failing areas within the region are located and removed from use while none of the drive's original data is being stored there. Only after the region has been made absolutely safe, will the drive's original data be restored to that area. " (quoted from the website for Spinrite: http://www.grc.com/sroverview.htm ) supposedly this is "unique" (Just hope the system doesn't freeze up or the power goes while it's doing this....) How is this different from: 1) take a backup 2) check for bad sectors (badblocks) 3) restore backup This is also less risky as the data is backed up somewhere safe -- Joost > > On Nov 15, 2010 9:16 AM, "Mick" wrote: > > On 15 November 2010 13:13, Jacob Todd wrote: > >> You might want to run spinrite on the drive if you have/can find a copy > > of > > >> it. > > > > Why? > > > > -- > > Regards, > > Mick