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Folks, Thanks again for your continuing advice and insights. As it happens, having repeatedly scanned the ailing hard drive with a recovery utility, it's decided to come back to life -- at least for now. I forgot that my wife of course had her entire iTunes library on this computer; it has been rescued and backed up (just days after Apple finally announces the end of DRM for that which you have bought). For the record, I did not apply percussive maintenance, however the incident happily confirms that some high-frequency hearing remains. /rich On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 5:28 PM, STeve Andre' <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > 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' >