On Monday 16 February 2009 12:59 pm, David Kaiser wrote: > 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)
The most recent version is 4-1/2 years old: http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm > 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. According to the page cited above, it should work; it uses MSDOS or FreeDOS. The way it works is it picks up data that's only marginally readable; it keeps retrying until it gets it, and then it writes it down again. Supposedly that's supposed to fix drives. Jeff -- Jeff Lasman, Nobaloney Internet Services P.O. Box 52200, Riverside, CA 92517 Our jplists address used on lists is for list email only voice: +1 951 643-5345, or see: "http://www.nobaloney.net/contactus.html";
