The issue is more difficult to deal with than it seems at first, I'm afraid. If the disk has failed entirely, you can expect to write anything on it off. If it hasn't, your workaround is to do as I suggested, then just manually recover what you can.
It's also possible that the team made a conscious decision to do exactly what they do, on the theory that a failing disk should be dropped completely, protecting the disk as much as possible so the end user can implement whatever data recovery efforts seem appropriate. But I'd like to see something a little more robust in this area myself, thus...
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It seems that writing a routine to 'cleanse' a disc (i.e. remove as much data as can be done within a reasonable error level) would be a relatively straightforward activity.
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Why look,
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I'm not on the WHS team, I just post a lot. :)
