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shackrock
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so a while back, when I was reformatting windows/starting anew....I moved everything important (including over 40gigs of audio....some finished projects some hardley begun) over to my other drive (internal). It is a 160gig drive, so it had plenty of room for the stuff on my other 60 gig which also housed the OS and programs, etc.
anyway, somewhere along that move and the move back to the original (yes, this was months ago...), a ton of files became corrupt. Of course, windows didn't know it. It had all the file names correct, and everything seemed to go perfectly. Since I used the "move" command both times, not the "copy" command, the files were moved (corrupt) and the deleted off of the other drive.
Luckily I found a program that revives old stuff that has been deleted if it's still on the drirve, before it was too late for a majority of the stuff to be saved over (I didnt even notice all of what had been corrupt, a LOT LOT LOT of stuff....ha).
Anyway, I've lived with the consequences here.
However, I'm wondering if this will happen again. What made this happen in the first place, and does data randomly just go bad like this? If I'm just using my computer, not touching my archived files, will those randomly go bad on me, and it'll be too late to get it all back?
What can I do to be safe, just start backing up to DVDs? ha...shoot. ha!
on top of that, I haven't defragged in a while and I'd like too. However, I DO remember reading somewhere a long time ago that huge files (say, 1gig .avi's or .vob files for all of my tons of films i've made saved on the drive) sometimes go unkowingly corrupt after a defrag. If that is possible, I really don't even want to risk it! Just looking for some advice I suppose.
And yes, all drives are NTFS. Additionally, permissions are set up on some of them (for different user profiles).
Thanks all.
anyway, somewhere along that move and the move back to the original (yes, this was months ago...), a ton of files became corrupt. Of course, windows didn't know it. It had all the file names correct, and everything seemed to go perfectly. Since I used the "move" command both times, not the "copy" command, the files were moved (corrupt) and the deleted off of the other drive.
Luckily I found a program that revives old stuff that has been deleted if it's still on the drirve, before it was too late for a majority of the stuff to be saved over (I didnt even notice all of what had been corrupt, a LOT LOT LOT of stuff....ha).
Anyway, I've lived with the consequences here.
However, I'm wondering if this will happen again. What made this happen in the first place, and does data randomly just go bad like this? If I'm just using my computer, not touching my archived files, will those randomly go bad on me, and it'll be too late to get it all back?
What can I do to be safe, just start backing up to DVDs? ha...shoot. ha!
on top of that, I haven't defragged in a while and I'd like too. However, I DO remember reading somewhere a long time ago that huge files (say, 1gig .avi's or .vob files for all of my tons of films i've made saved on the drive) sometimes go unkowingly corrupt after a defrag. If that is possible, I really don't even want to risk it! Just looking for some advice I suppose.
And yes, all drives are NTFS. Additionally, permissions are set up on some of them (for different user profiles).
Thanks all.
