hard disk failure

[Stephen]

not really. there are tools to recover data, but only 2 copies of the
file table.

On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 8:46 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> well, I hard-rebooted before this malfunction and (while I don't think it
> was) it might have been writing something to disk. No we all know the
> importance of a proper shutdown! Does windows have something similar with
> their hardware or if this were to happen with them would you be up the creek
> w/o a paddle?
>
> On Fri, Fesimilar w b 24, 2012 at 5:23 AM, Stephen <cryptworks at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Not always. I have used refurbished disks before without issue.
>>
>> Could also have been a brown out.
>>
>> On Feb 23, 2012 10:01 PM, "Michael Havens" <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> that's what I get for buying a refurbished disk.... eh?
>>>
>>> On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 9:49 PM, James Mcphee <jmcphe at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Usually happens on a bad shutdown.  Or dying disk.  But more often a bad
>>>> shutdown.
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 8:53 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Please, Speculate as to why my superblock went bad.
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