Monday, September 01, 2003

Whirrr, Buzzz

Which is the metaphorical sound that Windows 2000 makes when it CHKDSK's a drive's file system into oblivion. So, now I'm off to rebuild my 300Gb array server and hope that my backup methods were as good as I thought they were. That's not to say that the main partition isn't recoverable... but it's a bit of wait-n-see at this point.

However, after watching CHKDSK run for hours (lots of orphaned files, maybe 4 hours of processing so far), I'm very curious to see just how scrambled the disk is going to end up. I strongly suspect that I'll be pulling files off of the backup drive rather then attempt to verify whether the files are intact or not.

(Oh, and I'm back from NY, took all day Saturday to fix the server - and I stopped at the Philly Zoo on Sunday on my way back from NY... so I slept in quite late today before starting to tackle the 2nd crashed server.)

Labels: Win2000

posted by Wuphon's at 5:08 PM