XPost: aus.computers   
   From: none@not.here   
      
   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   
      
   > 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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