I cant seem to mount my old windows data ntfs drive on my mac and its telling me to run checkdisk on my windows machine. The last time I let windows do that it deleted a ton of files without any prompts which really ****ed me off. I do have a back up but there have been some photos added since the last backup which i dont want to get hosed.
I get the impression chkdisk is aggressive and deletes what would normally be ok...again its just an impression.
So I want to know besides resorting to a backup, is there anything i can do before and after running it to protect / retrieve files?
Also how do you check the health of a drive in general - im wondering if this is a hardware fault rahter than software.
I get the impression chkdisk is aggressive and deletes what would normally be ok...again its just an impression.
So I want to know besides resorting to a backup, is there anything i can do before and after running it to protect / retrieve files?
Also how do you check the health of a drive in general - im wondering if this is a hardware fault rahter than software.