Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1932 mails)

[Dave Plater <davejplater@xxxxxxxxx>]

Robert Smits wrote:
> 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.
>
>  
dd_rhelp from the ddrescue package does that as well and not only is it free 
but it also recovers cd roms and dvds.
Regards
Dave P

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