I'm REALLY late to the party, but, that's fashionable, isn't it?
We have run SpinRite here at AgEcon for years, I've been using it
personally for ~1.5 years, and I'm very impressed with it. I think it's
one of those rare, miracle products that actually does what it claims
and is easily worth the money. Of course, it doesn't fix physical
failures of any kind, but, we're surprised after using it for some time
now how many "Windows won't boot this morning" and "error reading drive"
type problems it fixes. We're getting to the point where we grab it
quickly and do much less troubleshooting on these types of problems,
and, I'm happy to say we've been right to do so--it's repaired a lot of
them without us wasting time doing troubleshooting.
Brian Hoort
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Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 2:13 PM
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Subject: Re: [MSUNAG] How hard should you hit an ailing hard drive?
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
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