What is checksum error?

[KrasH]

Billsey wrote:

by duesi on 2003/2/22 6:07:35
I agree ! Disksalv will fix the Problem
And try to use a small Bootpartition...

By the way, those of you who do have such huge drives, how do you make permanent backups of them? I would think that at those sizes, even a CD-R would be less than practical. I don't relish the idea of burning 40+ CDs to do one backup of one drive.

The safest way to backup a large hard drive is to back it up to another large hard drive (which is what I do here). Backing up 40GB  onto many CD-R's can work,  but because of the nature of CD Burning you may get a CD that didn't burn properly or even damage a CD-R afterwards. Can be rare. There is one question though. Would you risk your data?

[miles]

Disksalv is not ok for SFS partitions.  There are no fix in place
solutions for SFS.  SFSSalv can get files off a damaged partition.
The only way to fix a SFS partition is to reformat it using SFSFormat.
SFS is Beta softwaare, but I use it all the time.  FFS scks bad.  For
DiskMonTools try giving thee drive more buffers (2000) it might sped
it up.

[miles]

quote:

using SFS but with FFS gives the same error

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how aare you setting this up, to use FFS or SFS you need to
reformat the partition, this should have got rid of the error!

SFS must be used with it's SFSFormat.
FFS must be used with the workbench format command.

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[miles]

Madgun68

You are right there, all disk utilities that are made before WB3.5
(Disksalv, reorg, QBTools etc, will not work on drives larger than
4Gb, and AFAIR on partitions over 2Gb.  

NOTE WELL if they are used: Data will be lost!