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Hard drive about to fail ; Should I defrag it?
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<blockquote data-quote="Rishi" data-source="post: 481676" data-attributes="member: 46160"><p>Backup your important files first, either using an online service or a storage device(if possible make an entire system image so you can just restore your old partitions, folders on a clean and hopefully new HD), and then you can tinker with the problematic HD as you like.Defragging can reduce your chance of any recovery from VSS if it fails.</p><p></p><p>* If the drive is really old/damaged also do an integrity check of the system images you make before proceeding.Good third party programs have this option.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rishi, post: 481676, member: 46160"] Backup your important files first, either using an online service or a storage device(if possible make an entire system image so you can just restore your old partitions, folders on a clean and hopefully new HD), and then you can tinker with the problematic HD as you like.Defragging can reduce your chance of any recovery from VSS if it fails. * If the drive is really old/damaged also do an integrity check of the system images you make before proceeding.Good third party programs have this option. [/QUOTE]
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