Running scandisk and chkdsk was also a thing for decades. Luckily the lost sectors were often in unimportant files. But definitely a gamble. The bulk of the

Running scandisk and chkdsk was also a thing for decades. Luckily the lost sectors were often in unimportant files. But definitely a gamble. The bulk of the safety came from the redundancy of copying the file across machines, not filesystem protections.