Arriving late to the party...

At 1/14/2009 11:20 AM Wednesday, Nicholas Oas wrote:
>Like Laurence said, your symptom could be due to software corruption 
>and have little to do with the mechanical hd.

Speaking of recovering corrupted sectors from an ailing (but still 
spinning) HDD, this might be the time to ask if anybody has any 
experience with SpinRite from Gibson Research (a search of the MSUNAG 
Archives show this was last discussed on 4 Sep 2007).  I have heard 
wondrous stories about its data recovery capabilies, but those mostly 
come from testimonials read by the developer himself on his security 
podcast.  Although I own a license, I have never had the opportunity 
to use SpinRite for data recovery myself so I have no stories of my own.

Thanks,
-- dkm