Re: Recommend a good free anti-virus utility

From: Bob (spam_at_spamcop.com)
Date: 05/28/05 

Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 17:23:09 GMT

On Sat, 28 May 2005 19:09:25 +0200, "cquirke (MVP Windows shell/user)"
<cquirkenews@nospam.mvps.org> wrote:

>>I had a corrupt disk that would not make a hardware backup so I ran
>>CHKDSK on it. It claimed to fix some things including bad clusters in
>>the pagefile, etc. But it was still corrupt.

>Well, there's a case in point. Bad clusters = Bad HD, unless they are
>the result of imaging a bad HD to a good one in such a way that the
>bad cluster markers are carried over verbatim.

In my case I believe the problem was caused by telling the Enermax
Backup utility to use FAST copy mode. In the past when I used that
speed, I would get a hardware error. But I suspect that this time the
error was not detected. I am now using NORMAL speed, which has not
caused any problems.

The Enermax backup utility suspends its copying when it detects any
kind of activity. I know because when I leave the machine alone it
takes less time to do the same size backup than when I am working
while it backs up. Apparently it can't handle that when doing a FAST
backup. It is a new product and I am willing to evaluate it so I have
to expect glitches like this. Actually it is amazing the damn thing
works at all. Every other disk cloner I have seen boots into either a
DOS or a DVM shell to do the copying. 

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