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Tuesday, June 07, 2005

Sometimes a chkdsk is all it takes.

As I've reported earlier my main Windows setup managed to freak me out today since it appeared to have been wiped out from my hard disc. The only thing I could find in that drive was an empty Windows folder. Apparently one of my hard drives decided to f*&^ around with me and found a pretty nasty way to do that since a simple scandisk from the prompt made all the files in that Windows folder magically reappear, something about orphaned files was all I could read from the error report.
Should I trust that hard drive and continue working off of it or should I go for yet another Windows setup on a new drive I have on standby. Such is the magic of machines based on Windows.
What I tell most of my customers every day is that if they switch a PC on and it works flawlessly throughout the day, they should start to worry.. I guess I should be thankful that I managed to avoid yet another setup just by running a simple chkdsk.

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