Re: CHKDSK found errors
From: Jim (wdxp_at_cox.net)
Date: 10/05/04
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Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 22:05:55 -0500
Maurice;
I seem to have led you on a wild goose chase. All this time I thought
the problem was in the hardware, but the problem turns out to be with
the Acronis True Image software. The software has 10 levels of
compression you can select from, and selecting 0 yields uncompressed,
1 - 9 more compression. The higher you go with the compression, the
longer time it takes for a backup. I have found that using "1" would
give best compromise between speed and compression.
When I selected "1" every time, the Acronis True Image software would
tell me that only 19 Gb of space was required to back up the 60 Gb
drive with 41 Gb of data on it. Well, after fighting this thing for
two days, the damn software lied.
Today, after trying everything else, I decided to back up across the
network to another computer, using the exact same settings as I had
used over the firewire to my backup drive, that is, using "1" for
compression. The Acronis software told me only 19 Gb drive space
would be needed to back up my C: drive (where I had assumed the
problem to be), so I began the backup. Well, when it was finished
backing up with no problem, I looked at the file size and guess what?
It was 41 Gb in size, there was NO COMPRESSION at all. Thus, I was
trying to fit 41 Gb of data in a 35 Gb partition. So I tried again
using a higher number and guess what? Exact same size. So, the
software is flawed somehow. I upgraded the software as Acronis
recommended, and got exact same results. To be fair, the software did
work until recently.
So either the drive errors caused the software not to compress the
data or there is something amiss in the software that it stopped the
compression. I've given up on Acronis True Image, been fighting it
for over a year now and it's not worth the grief.
Thanks again for your help, I've learned a lot about Recovery console,
CHKDSK, etc.
Jim
On Sun, 3 Oct 2004 22:14:54 -0500, "Maurice N ~ MVP"
<maurice@mvps.org> wrote:
>Jenifer Scot wrote:
>> Did you try running the repair option from your operating
>> system cd? Many times in all windows operating systems,
>> chkdsk ( check disk errors), will have important
>> operating system files where the errors were located, and
>> more than likely will soon become bad sectors.
>
>With XP, a repair-install is a major undertaking with likely repercussions (such as the XP CD being an older version compared to the service pack-level of XP on the HDD). So it ought to be considered only as one of the last measures.
>You try other solutions first.
>On the OP's problem ---- it may have nothing to do with bad sectors at all. It is likelier that it's the simpler allocation errors.
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