On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 18:35 -0400, C Shore wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 04:24:59PM -0500, Tim McDonough wrote:
> > Recently when running backups from Windows machines I've started 
> > getting errors that say one or more files don't verify correctly. They 
> > are not files that are in use at the time of the backup or verify and 
> > if I perform multiple backups in a row different files will not 
> > verify. On the last instance of this happening there were 3 files out 
> > of several thousand that did not verify correctly.
> 
> I had a similar occurrence a few years ago.  In my case it wasn't the 
> hard drive (bad blocks tend to be more predictable, and bigger), nor 
> RAM, but a defective cpu (or motherboard, I don't remember which).
> 
> I know the hard drive and ram were okay because I'm using them still.  
> The cpu had issues in another system, but whether the cpu was a cause or 
> effect is not clear.
> 
> So, if you can, test your hard drive in another system (because it's 
> easiest to move).  If it works you may be looking at the same kind of 
> problem I had.

you don't say either way, but don't use WinXX, go to Hibernate, then
boot to Linux, then back to WinXX since it'll wonder why files have
changed during hibernation


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