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My mentor told me to always run a full chkdsk /r before swapping a drive, and it just saved a client's data.
Had a small business client in Oak Park with a failing boot drive. I was ready to just clone it and swap, but I remembered what he drilled into me. Ran the check, and it found and fixed bad sectors with critical QuickBooks files. The clone would have been corrupted. How many of you still do this as a mandatory step, or do you just trust the SMART status and clone?
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oliverbailey15h ago
My old boss had a similar rule for tape backups.
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thea1438h ago
Yeah, that's a solid habit. A buddy of mine skipped that step on a family PC last year, just went straight to cloning a drive that seemed okay. The clone booted, but half their photo library was a mess of corrupted files. It was a real headache to sort out from the original, and some were just gone. He doesn't trust SMART status alone anymore, always runs the check first now. That extra hour can save so much trouble.
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