iamdarkyoshi

I think I just found your Youtube channel!

I was reading the comments of a Modern Vintage Gamer video, and I noticed your username and very similar pfp on one of the comments. It appears that the channel that's linked to it has cute videos of cats and other miscellaneous things (like that screaming WD Blue). If this is you, it's great to see that you've been doing well!

Yo its been a long while. Do you still have that video of where you smashed the hell out of a cheap tempered glass screen protector and the phone came out perfectly fine?

My computer no u'd me

Also, finally getting around to updating the commodore 64 thread given that Gamer's Nexus saw my tweet

Hey all! Its time to do some retro repairs!

lmao perfect thumbnail

*notices ur new year*

also jesus christ 698 unread notifications

How long was I gone? O.o

please come back. the other moderators need help.

I saw you, I thought I recognized that name, I remembered you. Now I am here. Then again, maybe it's an imposter! Or maybe I'm just a creep? Who knows?!

Where did you come from, where did you go?

Hallo!  

I thought uncorrectable sector count and other such errors were properties of the drive itself, irrespective of the actual data they contain, but I just experienced something that makes me seriously question that.

I dug out an old drive that was good last time I used it but had been sitting in a closet for years and did a fresh (quick) format, along with enabling bitlocker.  It started causing issues so I unplugged it and restarted it a few times, even starting another format and turning it off in the middle of that - all of which easily adding up to enough that I'd expect serious corruption and data loss (if there was any data to lose, which there wasn't), but nothing a format wouldn't fix.

However Crystal Disk Info was reporting errors and saying "caution".  This wasn't surprising to me as I figured it had gone bad while sitting around and this was causing the issues that made me do the above things.

I've since started a clean format once again, this time doing the long version, and it's not done yet but Crystal Disk Info no longer reports any errors.

Perhaps the error was caused by my fiddling around?  Although that doesn't explain the source of the weirdness to begin with... though I could blame that on Windows (bitlocker).  More importantly though, it seems the error has been fixed by formatting.  That I did not expect.

Any insight?