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Partitioning Hard drives: Healthy or not?

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AnimeJanai:

--- Quote from: Stsin ---Yea, if the CRC errors are caused from disconnecting while writing, it would most likely only effect that partition.  But honestly, I'd fix it so that would never happen again.  If can't, may want to try setting the the 'Removal Policy' of that drive to 'Safe Removal' instead of 'Better Performance'.  Also prevent as much writing to it as possible, like turn off indexing and scheduled tasks such as defragmenting.
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Sometimes, despite safe removal and having automated functions turned off for that drive (drive indexing, chkdsk at boot time, defragmenting, virus checking on writes/reads, etc), the drive still remains "in use" when you click on the remove device icon in your systray.   If this is the case, you can flush the cache to the platter by running a small utility.  Yes, I do use it.  I made a little shortcut icon for it in the Quicklaunch area (the set of small icons on the left side of your taskbar).

Background Info:  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa364218(v=vs.85).aspx
Software Tool:  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897438

SilverDash:
^ I love you for that tool.

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