Rescue CD stressing HD?

[bVolk]

I always create full images of my primary SATA with TI9 running under Windows. Never had any problem either checking the archive (both from Win and Rescue CD) or restoring (a couple of times).

Today, for the first time, with build 2337, I went to create the image from the Rescue CD, this approach being supposedly safer. It took twice the time, but I don't mind that. What worries me is the fact that while the image was beeing ceated, I could hear the HD heads jumping very noisily around. That doesn't happen when I backup from Win and fragmentation didn't raise significantly in the last two days. No other operation (eg. virus or spyware scan) form Win ever produced that.

Did anybody experience this? What would be the reason? And, finally, does Rescue CD unduly stress the source HD?

[mareke]

The rescue CD does not stress hard disks! Your hard disk may have worked hard because it is getting near full and is fragmented causing the hard disk to spread the image you created over different portions of the disk so the heads had to move frequently or the disk may simply have been experiencing a problem. I wouldn't worry about it but you could always download a disk checking utility from the hard disk manufacturer and run it to check that the hard disk is OK.