Hi Eric,
Eric Auer escreveu: [...]
- add a recovery mode to XCOPY which tries to copy all files, does[...]
[...]- CHKDSK surface scan should try reading sectors N times. If that fails, mark the sector as broken and try copying the data elsewhere,
> - DEFRAG (or CHKDSK) should have a mode 'move data around to make clusters
> A ... B empty', optionally marking the whole cluster range as bad after
> that.
FWIK this is what scandisk does, am I wrong?
Doesn dosfsck lates release by yourself do that?
- IF XCOPY would not ask about retrying all the time
have a look at XXCOPY. (if you don find it I should have a copy) but it is shareware...
- IF DEFRAG or SCANDISK would allow me to free and mark-as-broken sectors in the neighbourhood of the actually broken sectors
I did that for floppie a long time ago, but I doubt that it would wor today because of simulated geometry. I believe that SPINRITE is the tool for that...
a lot. So let us do better than MS - let us introduce configurable XCOPY critical error handling (and error messages which tell you WHICH files are the victims of read/write errors)
for a start a flag for "continue on errors" (with on screen/file log) would be a big help
and configurable SURFACE SCAN 'confidence' (be more pessimistic, but try hard to rescue data;
Spinrite did that in in old days (Seagate STR238 could not live without it)
Alain
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