This is a question that has being bugging my mind for a while.
I have a old hard drive, a Seagate momentus 500GB.
Now what concerns me, is that I have being writing important data to that drive, and what I want to know is:
If that drive has been sitting for 3 years max without any of it's data refreshed, meaning that the NTFS file system on hat drive hasn't been rewritten, has that NTFS file system lost a bit of data (i.e. become corrupted) and what will happen to fresh files been copied back on to an old file system?
I have analyzed this disk and there appears to be no corruption. I want to know if their hasn't been data loss for sure. Small increments.
Also what does happen to files being written to a corrupted NTFS drive? I don't think I have tried experimenting with that because all the corrupted drives I've worked with I reformatted. So under careful analyses?
Now you might say why not just reformat it? Well I would. I am a bit short on drives atm and its full with other data. Hence the title "merging"
Any insight into this will be much appreciated.
I have a old hard drive, a Seagate momentus 500GB.
Now what concerns me, is that I have being writing important data to that drive, and what I want to know is:
If that drive has been sitting for 3 years max without any of it's data refreshed, meaning that the NTFS file system on hat drive hasn't been rewritten, has that NTFS file system lost a bit of data (i.e. become corrupted) and what will happen to fresh files been copied back on to an old file system?
I have analyzed this disk and there appears to be no corruption. I want to know if their hasn't been data loss for sure. Small increments.
Also what does happen to files being written to a corrupted NTFS drive? I don't think I have tried experimenting with that because all the corrupted drives I've worked with I reformatted. So under careful analyses?
Now you might say why not just reformat it? Well I would. I am a bit short on drives atm and its full with other data. Hence the title "merging"
Any insight into this will be much appreciated.