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It has been a long time since I had to deal with a drive failure (due to RAID) but my experience from way back was that most drives could be fixed by using a replacement electronics board. Since I always standardize around a particular drive for any given capacity, that was never a problem. In cases where that did not work the drives almost always could not be seen as a drive and so SpinRite would not have been helpful. -----Original Message----- From: MSU Network Administrators Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of David McFarlane Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 2:13 PM To: [log in to unmask] 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