Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1932 mails)

[Dave Plater <davejplater@xxxxxxxxx>]

Richard wrote:
> On Monday 30 June 2008 11:28:38 am James Knott wrote:
> > > �
> > Please explain how it's possible to repair a drive, but not copy with
> > appropriate tools. �If a sector is repairable, it's copyable. �Once you
> > have copied all the readable sectors, you can fix any damaged ones and
> > also the file system etc.
>
> Guys:
>
> I have a question. If the drive is unuseable as it sits, how can you screw up 
> anything by running Spinrite?  
>
> A friend who has used Spinrite on many bad drives says it cant hurt the drive 
> but may take hours to diagnose and fix.  He wouldnt hesitate to use it to 
> recover your disk.
>
> He says using the CD you let the cd boot and at the prompt you type spinrite 
> then find something else to do until it finishes.
>
> Also he's had 100% success with the program and that the MBR is a piece of 
> cake.  And if your drive is SMART capable, leave smart enabled will help do 
> the job.
>
> Richard
Spinrite is for repairing drives with defects, a worm eaten bootsector requires partition recovery software and for fat 
there is easyrecovery which works very well but costs money, norton disk doctor/diskedit or manual edit the partition 
table and mbr maybe use dfsee for Linux which is about the best I have found. You must make a backup image of the 
partition before writing for safety. There are always at least two fats and two mbrs. I the volume has a label you can 
search for that to find the mbrs and root directory, if the root directory is nuked as well you may be able to search 
for text files or ones with known headers as long as they are not fragmented.
Regards
Dave P

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