On Mon, 11 Jan 2021 17:01:55 +0000 steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk allegedly wrote:
Greetings clever cloggses!
Sprog's Windows laptop is occasionally saying "I have to reboot - disk error"
"Check Disk" isn't really finding anything wrong.
I used to be up to date with windows tools for fixing things, but now I'm out of date with Windows tools, though I'm up-to-date with Linux stuff.
I'm wondering if likely that booting from Ultimate Boot CD and/or System Rescue CD and running fsck and proprietary disk check utilities (e.g. seagate's disk utility if the disk turns out to be a seagate) is a good idea.
I doubt that will work. fsck is designed to check *nix filesystems. chkdsk is the windows equivalent.
Is it possible to use DD to clone a windows hard disk, assuming the destination disk is bigger than the source. Once cloned, would the clone work as a bootable disk so I could swap out the damaged one and swap in the new one?
How about clonezilla? Boot from the live disk and then clone the windows disk. So long as the disk is not too badly damaged and clonezilla can read the filesystems you may be lucky.
Any advice appreciated. Anyone know a reputable computer fixer in the city?
Afraid not, I've never used one.
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