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Originally Posted by George Washingmachine  My secondary hard drive gave out, so I spent the weekend doing what I could to recover the important things. There are apparently bad sectors sprinkled on my drive, and I was able to recover a large amount of files despite that. However, stupid me forgot to enable logging with the programs I'm using, so I have no idea which files were only partially recovered. I found a worrying count of 0-byte files, but I'm also sure that there are other files that only made it out halfway. Is there a program that can, say, scan files for large swathes of zeroes indicative of damage? | Probably not. Large files are the home of Zeroes. more often than you think a large file really just means haven for Zeroes.
Sounds like its time to create a backup schedule man.
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