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Heh. Disks that spontaneously pop back into life is one of those little gifts from above. But replace it now, before she puts anything else new on it! It will go again, with the chances being directly proportional to the value of the new things applied... --STeve Andre' On Thursday 15 January 2009 18:59:28 Richard Wiggins wrote: > 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'