{"id":3450,"date":"2010-04-14T12:47:11","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T19:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/?p=3450"},"modified":"2010-04-18T17:10:32","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T00:10:32","slug":"recovering-from-hard-drive-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2010\/04\/14\/recovering-from-hard-drive-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Recovering from Hard Drive Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m part way through recovering from a hard drive crash. Last week my computer made <strong>the dreaded clicking noise<\/strong>. So I decided it was time to transfer my computer life over to a new hard drive.<br \/>\nOld: 180gb main drive, 500gb secondary, 250gb external<br \/>\nNew: 1500gb main drive, screw-the-rest eh?<\/p>\n<p>Spinrite told me there were like 3 unrecoverable errors on the old main drive.<\/p>\n<p>My big question is: I have backups; <strong>how can I easily tell which files went bad and need recovering?<\/strong> I&#8217;ve got something like two hundred and fifty thousand files. (crap, I&#8217;ve got two hundred and fifty thousand files!). RAID-5 would automagically do it but Windows doesn&#8217;t support software RAID-5 and I don&#8217;t want to spend another $600 on drives and controllers. Other solutions?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got Windows and Outlook reinstalled. Next, the myriad support programs I rely on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m part way through recovering from a hard drive crash. Last week my computer made the dreaded clicking noise. So I decided it was time to transfer my computer life over to a new hard drive. Old: 180gb main drive, 500gb secondary, 250gb external New: 1500gb main drive, screw-the-rest eh? Spinrite told me there were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}