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resinch a dieing disk or add new disk & resinch?
Apologies again. I posted the same message in the "Test" board, and got complete unnoticed / unseen. As it is rather urgent, I am re-posting it here, where I hope it will be seen. I could not find a b...
right now it is still in the NAS. I can remove it, put it in this PC in place of the current drive (I do not have another free SATA power cable), boot off the HIREN Tool disks and run diagnostics.
But my worry is that any HD activity may endanger the disk (and the DATA on it). So I may as well add the new disk, and after the first resinching has been done, remove the disk and do all the testing or diagnostic; if it fails, and it is not recoverable anymore, I let NAS resinch without disk#1.
But my worry is that any HD activity may endanger the disk (and the DATA on it). So I may as well add the new disk, and after the first resinching has been done, remove the disk and do all the testing or diagnostic; if it fails, and it is not recoverable anymore, I let NAS resinch without disk#1.
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