In article ,
J. S. Pack wrote:
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 17:33:09 GMT, "Stephen H. Fischer"
wrote:

Hi,

The current state of NTFS recovery software (I.E. supplied with the O.S.)
appears to me to violate "The Goal of Trustworthy Computing", Reliability:
The customer can depend on the product to fulfill its functions.

Under normal circumstances. Which it does quite well, better than FAT32
ever did, so there's no violation.


There appears to be a dichotomy in the handling of file system errors.


As well there should be.

CHKDSK will run or CHKDSK will not run is the dividing point.

If CHKDSK will run, it does its work and repairs the file system with
minimal reporting. The decision apparently has been made to have it do its
work now behind a blank screen during the boot process. Thus it has passed
into to the realm of programs that to weekend computer warriors will always
succeed as it is started and runs without input from the user.



If what's on your disk is valuable to you, you'll back it it and keep
a copy at another location, and never overwrite your most-recent
backup media. There are any number of ways you can lose the contents
of your disk dive that dtaa recovery can't fix. Theft and lightning
are obvious ones.

And, if you're protected against fire, flood, theft, etc, you are, by
definition, protected against a file system failure (whatever that
means.)

It's not clear to me that the OP has an NTFS problem, because two file
systems became unavailable at the same time. To me that sounds like
losing partition information or a hardware failure. I'd like to know,
when the dust settles if the disk formats correctly and works OK.

It's also not clear what the OP was doing when the problem happened.

NTFS is better than any non-journalling FS I've ever worked with, from
a reliability standpoint. Performance is a different question and not
revevant unless you have a million files, or so,

IMO NTFS is more reliable that the disks it runs on.

IMO NTFS is amazingly tolerant of failing hardware that the disk is
connected to.




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