John Andersen wrote:
On Wednesday 08 September 2004 08:05 am, Richard wrote:
The likelihood of needing to do a low level formatting is pretty close to zero.
And the Likelihood of it doing any good is even closer to zero.
BTW if this is a Deskstar there is a utility on their site for drive testing.
Its a pretty good test. Customer brought in a problem drive, Deskstar utility said it was toast. Customer insisted Gibson's SpinRight would fix it, so he purchased it and guess what: Just like I told him, software can't fix hardware. Its still toast.
Last year, at the local Linux user group, there was a presentation about data recovery from disks. One point the presenter made clear, was they *NEVER* use recovery tools on the original disk. They always make copy of it, and then try to recover from the copy. They can also recover from many hardware failures, including by moving the platters to another drive etc. Those services do not come cheap.