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USB boot device fails intermittently
Running 7.4.2 on a USB boot device.
The whole thing works perfectly time after time after time ...
... until it doesn't, and the message "Boot error" comes up.
In the past I've tried chkdsk /f or dd-ing a library copy of sector 1 or even defrag (crazy, it takes forever) but now I just sigh and reformat.
I know USB devices have "lifetimes" but these are intermittent recoverable failures, not deaths.
The device is used 2,3,4,... times a day. The failures occur maybe 4 times a year. I am not aware of any consistent lead-up to failure.
Anybody else getting the same sort of behaviour?
Fergus
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