XPost: aus.computers   
   From: nospam@needed.invalid   
      
   On Wed, 11/26/2025 5:58 PM, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:   
      
   > then leave it connected to a Windows PC while it   
   > boots up so it should automatically CHKDSK it during start-up.   
      
   No.   
      
   I've already explained at some point, that in-place repair   
   of a sick disk with CHKDSK is wrong.   
      
   You clone the disk over to known-good materials.   
   That's your golden copy.   
      
   That is your only priority right now. Cloning the   
   bad disk to a good disk. That's the first step.   
   The idea is to make sure, before absolutely anything   
   else happens, you have that copy.   
      
                        good quality              good quality   
                        fully operational disk    fully operational disk   
      
      Bad disk -------> Golden copy disk -------> experiment disk   
         1TB                 1TB                       1TB   
      
   You do your questionable experiments on the right hand disk.   
      
   If the right-hand disk suffers information loss or is   
   less-good than the middle disk, you clone the middle   
   disk onto the experiment disk again.   
      
   If you have recovery software that scans the middle   
   disk (such as Photorec), it will ask where you want   
   the fragments put, and you put the fragments onto the   
   right hand disk.   
      
   Notice that, after the safety copy is made to the middle   
   disk, we have stopped using the left-hand disk.   
      
   *******   
      
   If you don't have the setup to attend the left hand disk,   
   then stop using the left hand disk for now. That's about   
   the best you can do for it.   
      
   Freeze mist isn't necessary, because the disk is being detected,   
   it's operational, the head is free, the head loads, the   
   critical data comes off the platter, the disk identifies itself.   
      
      Paul   
      
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