Life sucks once again, or: how a HD totally messed up Odin's evening/night

[PMC]

odin wrote:
Full format I think. I always do a full format when doing a clean install on something.

Wise move.  I ended up fitting a 4.3 Gig boot drive and a 15 Gig drive split between two partitions.  

The end result was that I could back up each partition onto two others, as my total file useage never exceeded 25% (boot partition 10%) so I could afford to be generous with storage.

However, backing the lot up took bloody ages...  :roll:

[KennyR]

Full format on partitions is pointless. Due to the way drives work, it verifies the data in the buffers rather than from disk. Result: bad blocks aren't detected. Full format is for removable media, and I'm not sure it's even necessary any more now that floppies are gone.