Does the EWF verify data written during restart or shut down?

[Mark K Vallevand]

Does the EWF verify data written during restart or shut down? We have some
Compact Flash devices that don't seem to hold data consistantly. We'd like
some kind of verify and retry. Is there something in the IDE driver or the
EWF that would do this?


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[Matt Kellner \(MS\)]

Hi Mark. Unfortunately, no, EWF does not validate its data. It relies on
the OS to write the data properly, so if for some reason data is not written
correctly or the device corrupts that data, EWF itself won't pick up on
this.

You might be able to use CHKDSK or another disk scanning utility to verify
the integrity of the data, but this is not guaranteed and may cause the
overlay to fill up with extra writes.

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[Mark K Vallevand]

Does the IDE driver have a feature/option to verify the data it writes?

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Mark K Vallevand (e-mail address removed)

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