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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org