XPost: aus.computers   
   From: none@not.here   
      
   Rod Speed wrote:   
   > 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   
      
   In the original post I wrote "I noticed a second drive in a Win7 PC was   
   not in File Exploiter, and didn't appear in file management" but I see   
   now that I wrote "file management" instead of  "disk management"   
      
   >   
   >>> 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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