I have a lot of home videos (~4 gb each) that I am storing. I am slowly putting these on DVD's but its a slow process and I want to ensure that the data is safe until I finish. But my question really applies to data in general.
1) First, is there any benefit to NTFS v. fat32 as far as file recovery/partition corruption, etc
I just had a problem with my external Maxtor 3000DV where the partition disappeared and the only program able to get everything back was getdataback (for FAT) (www.runtime.org). erd commander couldn't even mount the volume.
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=27&threadid=1786436&enterthread=y
2) The Maxtor 3000DV has passed all hardware diagnostics which makes me think that the culprit may have been something I worried about when I first got this drive (see my post from long ago below)....it doesn't have a switch. Everytime I plug it in, i'm nervous about a spike or some other power issue corrupting my drive.
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...hreadid=1540211&enterthread=y&arctab=y
Assuming that once I rewrite the boot record and partition tables of this drive and confirm that the drive works okay, is the lack of a power switch a bad thing? Is there anyway to correct this?
3) Preventive measures: There are a lot of programs that can backup or save the boot records and partitions and later restore them. Which program would you suggest using for preventive measures?
Any other suggestions?
1) First, is there any benefit to NTFS v. fat32 as far as file recovery/partition corruption, etc
I just had a problem with my external Maxtor 3000DV where the partition disappeared and the only program able to get everything back was getdataback (for FAT) (www.runtime.org). erd commander couldn't even mount the volume.
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=27&threadid=1786436&enterthread=y
2) The Maxtor 3000DV has passed all hardware diagnostics which makes me think that the culprit may have been something I worried about when I first got this drive (see my post from long ago below)....it doesn't have a switch. Everytime I plug it in, i'm nervous about a spike or some other power issue corrupting my drive.
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...hreadid=1540211&enterthread=y&arctab=y
Assuming that once I rewrite the boot record and partition tables of this drive and confirm that the drive works okay, is the lack of a power switch a bad thing? Is there anyway to correct this?
3) Preventive measures: There are a lot of programs that can backup or save the boot records and partitions and later restore them. Which program would you suggest using for preventive measures?
Any other suggestions?