Everything Right Is Wrong Again
Mar. 11th, 2005 11:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alfvaenI've been ripping my CD collection, gradually, onto my hard drive. I usually just stick one in to rip just before I go upstairs. Over the last couple of days, though, I'd keep coming back downstairs to find the computer locked up or BSODing. When I tried it again, I confirmed my suspicion: disk problems. Hard disk, that is.
A few months ago when I screwed up my file allocation table and such, it was because I ran a scandisk because of disk access problems. Because of the partitioning of the disk since then, it's probably just now reaching those bad sectors again. Which means it's probably time to run a scandisk. I was hoping that the reformat would've marked the bad sectors, but apparently not. I've had plenty of experience in the past with bad sectors that only manifest when you actually try to write to them, and disk scans miss them entirely unless there's a file on top of them.
I've learned my lesson, though. The problems last time were mostly due to my not realizing that the overlay code I was using would result in spurious "Multiple copies of FAT detected" errors. Since it's now partitioned instead, the problem should not remanifest. But now I'm paranoid, so I'm backing up the whole thing. Which may take a while. I haven't decided whether I'll actually copy the ripped MP3 files onto CD or not; in some ways, the backup for those is the CDs themselves, but ripping them takes a long time, and an MP3 CD can hold more than a music CD. We'll see how many I have left over, I guess.
A few months ago when I screwed up my file allocation table and such, it was because I ran a scandisk because of disk access problems. Because of the partitioning of the disk since then, it's probably just now reaching those bad sectors again. Which means it's probably time to run a scandisk. I was hoping that the reformat would've marked the bad sectors, but apparently not. I've had plenty of experience in the past with bad sectors that only manifest when you actually try to write to them, and disk scans miss them entirely unless there's a file on top of them.
I've learned my lesson, though. The problems last time were mostly due to my not realizing that the overlay code I was using would result in spurious "Multiple copies of FAT detected" errors. Since it's now partitioned instead, the problem should not remanifest. But now I'm paranoid, so I'm backing up the whole thing. Which may take a while. I haven't decided whether I'll actually copy the ripped MP3 files onto CD or not; in some ways, the backup for those is the CDs themselves, but ripping them takes a long time, and an MP3 CD can hold more than a music CD. We'll see how many I have left over, I guess.
