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<blockquote data-quote="Slydude" data-source="post: 1796468" data-attributes="member: 131855"><p>I don't think there is a good way to predict that. It seems to me that the answer would depend upon exactly what was happening at the moment the drive died. If, for example, some files had already been written to the new drive those should be OK. If a directory change is being written then the files might not be useable. I was completing a clone recently and had the target drive go offline during the cloning process. CArbon Copy Cloner put up a warning.</p><p> </p><p>I can't really say whether the files would have been useful beause I was cloning system files -- which wouldn't have been bootable since the process didn't complete. I think data files that had already been copied woul have been useful.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Slydude, post: 1796468, member: 131855"] I don't think there is a good way to predict that. It seems to me that the answer would depend upon exactly what was happening at the moment the drive died. If, for example, some files had already been written to the new drive those should be OK. If a directory change is being written then the files might not be useable. I was completing a clone recently and had the target drive go offline during the cloning process. CArbon Copy Cloner put up a warning. I can't really say whether the files would have been useful beause I was cloning system files -- which wouldn't have been bootable since the process didn't complete. I think data files that had already been copied woul have been useful. [/QUOTE]
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