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So can lost clusters be part of something important then? ie part of a
essential windows program? I will 'save' from now on when norton starts
repairing. Does the windows scan disk program pick up on lost clusters
or am I better off sticking to my norton disk doctor?
Gary S. Terhune Wrote:
> It *is* possible to put these files back together. But you'd either
> have
> to learn how, yourself, or take it to a pro. You'd also want to save
> copies of cross-linked files before repairing them.
>
> I look into the files using a plain-text editor in order to possibly
> find out what they are. Particularly if they are image of text
> documents, even lost fragments can contain a significant amount of
> data
> that can be used as is.
>
> --
> Gary S. Terhune
> MS MVP Shell/User
> http://www.grystmill.com/articles/cleanboot.htm
> http://www.grystmill.com/articles/security.htm
>
> "PSYCHOPIXIE" PSYCHOPIXIE.1kn6bz@news.win98banter.com wrote in message
> news
SYCHOPIXIE.1kn6bz@news.win98banter.com...-
>
> That's good news then. Although does that mean when norton fixes
> them-
> I-
> should be saving the lost clusters rather than deleting(question-
> mark).-
> Norton does it's whole fixing thing and then asks afterwards what I-
> want-
> to do with them. I sometimes save and sometimes allow them to be
> deleted. Norton also offers to make some sort of back up file incase-
> it-
> alters and does something naughty but I can't be bothered with doing
> that so I skip.
>
>
> PCR Wrote:-
> "jane" jane@internet.com wrote in message
> news:%236kH0iPFFHA.4004@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> |
> | No, Lost Clusters aren't the same as bad clusters. Lost Clusters
> are
> | files with a head but no tail, or a tail with no head, or a--
> middle--
> with
> | no head and no tail....to put it simply, somewhere along the line
> the
> | integrity of the file got broken and the clusters that make it up
> are no
> | longer associated with each other properly. Lost Clusters are--
> those--
> | which aren't marked as deleted or empty, but which don't
> recognizably
> | belong to a file. You typically get Lost Clusters when forced to
> reset
> | or when Cross-linked files occur--parts of two files get
> incorrectly
> | linked together as one file, with the other parts that are left
> over
> | becoming Lost Clusters.
> |
> | Bad clusters are areas that are physically corrupted--can't be--
> read--
> in
> | part or in whole.
> |
> | WOE.
> | I am going to be a Dan for a second on your above reply gary.
> | That was the most Terse and comprehensive explanation I
> | have ever read.
> | Each line was an edification.
> |
> | **accolades**
> |
> | regards Jane
>
> I'd rather be "a head but no tail" than the other choices he has
> offered!
>
> --
> Thanks or Good Luck,
> There may be humor in this post, and,
> Naturally, you will not sue,
> should things get worse after this,
> PCR
> pcrrcp@netzero.net-
>
>
> --
> PSYCHOPIXIE-
--
PSYCHOPIXIE
So can lost clusters be part of something important then? ie part of a
essential windows program? I will 'save' from now on when norton starts
repairing. Does the windows scan disk program pick up on lost clusters
or am I better off sticking to my norton disk doctor?
Gary S. Terhune Wrote:
> It *is* possible to put these files back together. But you'd either
> have
> to learn how, yourself, or take it to a pro. You'd also want to save
> copies of cross-linked files before repairing them.
>
> I look into the files using a plain-text editor in order to possibly
> find out what they are. Particularly if they are image of text
> documents, even lost fragments can contain a significant amount of
> data
> that can be used as is.
>
> --
> Gary S. Terhune
> MS MVP Shell/User
> http://www.grystmill.com/articles/cleanboot.htm
> http://www.grystmill.com/articles/security.htm
>
> "PSYCHOPIXIE" PSYCHOPIXIE.1kn6bz@news.win98banter.com wrote in message
> news
SYCHOPIXIE.1kn6bz@news.win98banter.com...->
> That's good news then. Although does that mean when norton fixes
> them-
> I-
> should be saving the lost clusters rather than deleting(question-
> mark).-
> Norton does it's whole fixing thing and then asks afterwards what I-
> want-
> to do with them. I sometimes save and sometimes allow them to be
> deleted. Norton also offers to make some sort of back up file incase-
> it-
> alters and does something naughty but I can't be bothered with doing
> that so I skip.
>
>
> PCR Wrote:-
> "jane" jane@internet.com wrote in message
> news:%236kH0iPFFHA.4004@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> |
> | No, Lost Clusters aren't the same as bad clusters. Lost Clusters
> are
> | files with a head but no tail, or a tail with no head, or a--
> middle--
> with
> | no head and no tail....to put it simply, somewhere along the line
> the
> | integrity of the file got broken and the clusters that make it up
> are no
> | longer associated with each other properly. Lost Clusters are--
> those--
> | which aren't marked as deleted or empty, but which don't
> recognizably
> | belong to a file. You typically get Lost Clusters when forced to
> reset
> | or when Cross-linked files occur--parts of two files get
> incorrectly
> | linked together as one file, with the other parts that are left
> over
> | becoming Lost Clusters.
> |
> | Bad clusters are areas that are physically corrupted--can't be--
> read--
> in
> | part or in whole.
> |
> | WOE.
> | I am going to be a Dan for a second on your above reply gary.
> | That was the most Terse and comprehensive explanation I
> | have ever read.
> | Each line was an edification.
> |
> | **accolades**
> |
> | regards Jane
>
> I'd rather be "a head but no tail" than the other choices he has
> offered!
>
> --
> Thanks or Good Luck,
> There may be humor in this post, and,
> Naturally, you will not sue,
> should things get worse after this,
> PCR
> pcrrcp@netzero.net-
>
>
> --
> PSYCHOPIXIE-
--
PSYCHOPIXIE
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