I used to use Spinrite version 5 or something back in the early to mid 90's. It was able to recover almost every bad block (we used to say bad sector back then)
I can't use Spinrite anymore because it won't work with IDE or SATA drives, it only worked with drives where it could directly access the drive - no translation like IDE or SATA put on top of the physical drive. It's possible that Spinrite has a newer version that will work with IDE or SATA drives, and if so, I'd hope it worked as well as the old version I used 15 years ago... Dante Lanznaster wrote: > ditto on spinrite. Never tried it myself, but the reviews are great! :P > > On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Todd Lyons <tly...@ivenue.com> wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Roger E. Rustad, Jr >> <roger.rus...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> I'm helping a coworker recover some stuff of a failing drive. It's quite >>> important to him, as his little girl is very sick and he has some >>> pictures of her on it. >> Nobody's mentioned it, but Spinrite has always been a good problem >> solver if you believe everything that you read. If you have access to >> a version of Spinrite, run that and see what it can do for you. >> >> -- >> Regards... Todd >> All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, >> it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. >> _______________________________________________ >> LinuxUsers mailing list >> LinuxUsers@socallinux.org >> http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >> > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > LinuxUsers@socallinux.org > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers
