On the fly usually means- while other stuff is going on. Given the type
of drive recovery work Spinrite is used for, however, it may be
advisable to let it run by itself to ensure successful completion of the
repair, and to avoid inadvertent crashes from other programs or bad disk
reads which could force you to re-start the job. Given that it can take
all night to run, would you want to repeat it?
Madrachod@xxxxxxx wrote:
In a message dated 6/7/2004 11:25:33 PM Eastern Daylight Time, vbalbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
Basically it takes a failing hard drive and does a low-level format on it on the fly.
I think I have a basic understanding of the term "on the fly", but what exactly does it mean in this circumstance? I have a cd burning studio on my puter that allows me to burn a cd on the fly, but I have no idea what that means. What's the difference twixt burning it normally or on the fly? Won't they both do the same thing and you still have to wait the full 20 minutes for it to finish?
Dale
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