harvardjanitor7
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Okay, I've been turning off my external hard drive whenever i want to. Lately I've been making back-ups from cds and storing them in my external. Then, I turn it off (bad idea i guess, I should turn it off when my whole computer is off).
I ran checkdisk on it, and it found a "bad cluster" on EVERY backup that I made. Then, it fixed them.
I tested out each backup, but it still works fine!
Now after searching through the forum, a "bad cluster" is basically a dead part of the hard drive. But it seems like I'm not having any problems. Will I have problems in the future?
When you store files on an external, are there temporary files still being run that I can't see?
What's the best way to avoid further bad clusters? (I'm guessing only turn off external when the whole comp is off, or should I never turn it off?)
I ran checkdisk on it, and it found a "bad cluster" on EVERY backup that I made. Then, it fixed them.
I tested out each backup, but it still works fine!
Now after searching through the forum, a "bad cluster" is basically a dead part of the hard drive. But it seems like I'm not having any problems. Will I have problems in the future?
When you store files on an external, are there temporary files still being run that I can't see?
What's the best way to avoid further bad clusters? (I'm guessing only turn off external when the whole comp is off, or should I never turn it off?)