Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1932 mails)

[Robert Smits <bob@xxxxxxxxx>]

On June 30, 2008 09:28:38 am James Knott wrote:
> Robert Smits wrote:
> > On June 30, 2008 05:23:41 am James Knott wrote:
> > > Oddball wrote:
> > > > James Knott schreef:
> > > > > The problem with Spinrite is that it attempts to repair the drive,
> > > > > rather than copy the data to another drive.  This means if it messes
> > > > > up, you've lost everything.  It's far safer to copy the drive
> > > > > contents to another drive and work on recovery there.
> >
> > While it's certainly prudent to make a copy (if you can) of the damaged
> > drive if you have data on your drive that isn't being read, it's not
> > going to be copied, either.
>
> Please explain how it's possible to repair a drive, but not copy with
> appropriate tools.  If a sector is repairable, it's copyable.  

No, it's not. You can have areas with low magnetization that simply are not 
being read. Spinrite has a whole  bag of tricks to recover files that are 
unreadable with your disk copying program.  

> Once you 
> have copied all the readable sectors, you can fix any damaged ones and
> also the file system etc.

That's the point. It fixes previously unreadable sectors.
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