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Microsoft Redesigns chkdsk For Windows 8, Improves NTFS Health Model
MojoKid writes "Microsoft can't do anything to magically make hard drives stop failing when parts go bad, but Redmond is rolling out a new NTFS health model for Windows 8 with a redesigned chkdsk tool for disk corruption detection and fixing. In past versions of the chkdsk and NTFS health model, the file system volume was either deemed healthy or not healthy. In Windows 8, Microsoft is changing things up. Rather than hours of downtime, Windows 8 splits the process into phases that include 'Detect Corruption,' 'Online Self-Healing,' 'Online Verification,' 'Online Identification & Logging,' and 'Precise & Rapid Correction.'"
here the highlight.
if disk.mbr.has_grub
for part in disc.partitions
if part.type.not_ours
chair.throw() # dammit... let's do something about it
part.raw_write(offset=random(1,part.size),data=random(1,255)) # voila'
end if
end for
end if
---- MISSING MISCELLANEOUS DATA SEGMENT --- [sigdash] trolololol
Given the other phase names, I surprised the marketing department didn't call this "Detect Awesomeness!".
It seems like Microsoft is really going out of it's way to innovate in Windows 8. I just hope both Apple and Linux developers would add something similar, as it's hard drive failure can lead to huge problems. Yes, you can use RAID or something, but that will bring costs significantly up. It's better to see these things before failure actually happens.
Rather than take sane precautions with your data such as RAID and/or backing up your information, you want a warning 1 minute before your drive fails?
1 minute should be more than enough for anybody.
Sure, you can even run it under Wine and do an online check of your / . It's amazingly fast in fixing your disk, much more so than even rm -rf. Then you can upgrade your Wine to a bottle and wonder wth you just did.
En garde!!!