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On Thursday 15 January 2009 14:13:08 David McFarlane wrote: > 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 I found R Studio to be *far* better. SpinRite did indeed seem to spin the disk, but it didn't do much to find anything. R Studio sat there for an hour or two and then came up with a listing of files, and actually did pluck those files from the bad disk. R Studio is bound to the particular machine its set up on however, so you want to devote a system to that. R Studio is also a GPL copyright violation: its based on a flavour of Linux but does not offer the source code anywhere that I could see. --STeve Andre'