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[SLE] Hard Drive Maintenance and Recovery Utility
- From: Ralph Ellis <ralphellis1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 03:16:39 -0400
- Message-id: <447FE5D7.8060502@xxxxxxxxxxx>
I just thought that I would toss in a good word for a hard drive utility
that I used recently to recover some bad sectors on my hard drive. When
my Windows partition crashed some weeks ago, I picked up a few hard
drive sectors that were marked as bad. I did not lose any important data
although a Windows Dr Watson log file almost filled my 190gig hard drive
partition until I deleted it. The bad sectors were a minor annoyance as
they generated error messages during image backups etc. I looked for a
hard drive utility that would not screw up my Suse Linux partition but
recover the bad sectors and save me formating the Windows partition and
then restoring the data to it from an image file. In the end, I used
SpinRite from Gibson Research Corporation. It is operating system
neutral because it works at the hardware level and can work with almost
any file system. I was a little concerned because my Suse partition is
XFS instead of ReiserFS but the utility running from a floppy did its
job and did not mess up anything on the hard drive.
Pros - effective and safe - operating system neutral - many choices of
the level of intervention
Cons - expensive $90 US - slow because it turns off virtually all
hardware acceleration while working - finds IDE, SATA and USB drives
easily but does not immediately see firewire drives
If you run it on level 5, full sector recovery and the deepest operation
level, start it up, go out for a movie and a long dinner and it should
just about be finished when you get back. Plan on 4 to 6 hours. They
have a good reputation for data recovery in the event of hard disk
crashes and you can use the program for preventative maintenance.
Ralph Ellis
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that I used recently to recover some bad sectors on my hard drive. When
my Windows partition crashed some weeks ago, I picked up a few hard
drive sectors that were marked as bad. I did not lose any important data
although a Windows Dr Watson log file almost filled my 190gig hard drive
partition until I deleted it. The bad sectors were a minor annoyance as
they generated error messages during image backups etc. I looked for a
hard drive utility that would not screw up my Suse Linux partition but
recover the bad sectors and save me formating the Windows partition and
then restoring the data to it from an image file. In the end, I used
SpinRite from Gibson Research Corporation. It is operating system
neutral because it works at the hardware level and can work with almost
any file system. I was a little concerned because my Suse partition is
XFS instead of ReiserFS but the utility running from a floppy did its
job and did not mess up anything on the hard drive.
Pros - effective and safe - operating system neutral - many choices of
the level of intervention
Cons - expensive $90 US - slow because it turns off virtually all
hardware acceleration while working - finds IDE, SATA and USB drives
easily but does not immediately see firewire drives
If you run it on level 5, full sector recovery and the deepest operation
level, start it up, go out for a movie and a long dinner and it should
just about be finished when you get back. Plan on 4 to 6 hours. They
have a good reputation for data recovery in the event of hard disk
crashes and you can use the program for preventative maintenance.
Ralph Ellis
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