Microsoft Redesigns chkdsk For Windows 8, Improves NTFS Health Model 219
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.'"
Re:No more hours of downtime (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".
.. "RAID is not a backup strategy".
Repeat after me
Re:New options? (Score:5, Informative)
Next Gen File system (Score:5, 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 [msdn.com]
Re:Next Gen File system (Score:5, Informative)
In fact the whole blog is interesting Building Windows 8 [msdn.com]
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