XPost: aus.computers   
   From: rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com   
      
   On Thu, 27 Nov 2025 19:12:46 +1100, Felix  wrote:   
      
   > Paul wrote:   
   >> 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,   
   >   
   > not in windows 10/11   
      
   You havent said if its visible in disk manager   
      
   >> 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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