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Re: CRASHING HARD DRIVE



> In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>   I know that this has been discussed before so I
>> apologize for asking again.  I believe that my hard
>> drive is on its last leg.  Can I do a quick and dirty
>> bzip2 / and will that bzip2 by drive so that I can
>> copy it to another, then do the bunzip2?  I'm looking
>> for a easy solution, I can re-install, that's not a
>> problem, I just hate to loose some programs that I
>> have installed.
>> Thanks in advance.
>> Don

Don - you didn't say what the drive problem looks like, but once when I
was just about to replace a drive I ram memtest and found that bad memory
was the problem causing corrupted files on disk.

...RickM...




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