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   From: nospam@needed.invalid   
      
   On Sat, 12/20/2025 12:24 AM, Axel wrote:   
      
   >   
   > well, I've finished copying from the NTFS drive, and the drive inside the PC   
   with the files is a (brand) new drive formatted in Ext4. but if I need to   
   access the NTFS drive, I will do as you suggest and put it into the PC. I   
   won't do error testing on    
   it now, as I need to sort the files on the new drive, which will take quite   
   some time.   
      
   See my other post, for how to audit with hashdeep.   
   Don't edit anything, until the unblemished trees of files have been compared.   
      
   For big files sent across the room, I quite frequently   
   check the checksum of the file on the source computer   
   and on the destination computer, for equality. I don't   
   think I have *ever* detected an error. But, I keep doing   
   this as force of habit. I used to work designing computers   
   and computer components, and I got to see lots of brokenness   
   in the doing. That's why I am cautious.   
      
   The RAM is very good today. If the computer had ECC, I would   
   not be doing nearly as much checking as I do. The older   
   computers (DDR2 and older), were miserable for errors.   
      
       Paul   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)