Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1932 mails)

[Robert Smits <bob@xxxxxxxxx>]

On June 30, 2008 10:59:16 am James Knott wrote:

> By copying the sectors to another drive, you may be able to fix
> defective sectors by using a sector editor.  If you mess up, you just
> start again on a copy, without having to go back to the original drive.
> By fixing the defective sectors, you may now be able to recover the
> data.  If you operate directly on the defective drive, a mistake may
> make data recovery impossible.  Again, if you can read enough for
> Spinright to work, you can read enough to copy the sectors and working
> on a copy is always safer than on the original.  Also, in order to copy
> the original sectors from a defective drive, you need the appropriate
> tools that will make multiple attempts to read a sector etc., instead of
> just passing over the error.  Any decent sector repair tool should be
> able to do that.

I don't think you understand what Spinrite (not Spinright) actually does, 
James. 

Spinrite is a stand-alone DOS program designed to refurbish hard drives, 
floppy disks and recover data from marginally or completely unreadable hard 
drives and floppy disks and from partitions and folders which have become 
unreadable. When it encounters a sector with errors that cannot be corrected 
by the disk drives' error correcting code it tries to read the sector up to 
2000 times, and tries to determine the most probable value of each bit by 
comparing the results. The data is then saved onto a new block of the same 
disk; it cannot be saved elsewhere.

It's not a file undelete or defrag utility.

 
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