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Microsoft Redesigns chkdsk For Windows 8, Improves NTFS Health Model

Posted by Soulskill on from the strict-diet-and-lots-of-exercise dept.

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.'"

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  1. Re:No more hours of downtime by OzPeter · · Score: 5, Informative

    sane precautions with your data such as RAID and/or backing up your information

    RAID and backing up should never be considered an "OR".
     
    Repeat after me .. "RAID is not a backup strategy".

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  2. Re:New options? by The+MAZZTer · · Score: 4, Informative

    "Online" as in "don't dismount the disk while we fix it, so you can continue to use it".

  3. Next Gen File system by OzPeter · · Score: 4, Informative

    I was curious as to why MS is continuing on with NTFS, surely there must be something newer coming out of their R&D labs. So a quick google turned up this from the same blog, but earlier this year: building the next generation file system for windows refs

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    1. Re:Next Gen File system by OzPeter · · Score: 4, Informative

      In fact the whole blog is interesting Building Windows 8

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