Dido on spinrite. I use version 6.0 which is the latest. It'll even work with some usb external drives. Depends if the os needs to mount a usb driver or it's supported through the bios.
Don't use it if your drive is dying from physical damage, i.e. bad servo motor or actuator. Spinrite has a tendency to overheat drives due to so much thrashing of the heads. So make sure it's in a nice cool environment. --Manny On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Jeff Lasman <jpli...@nobaloney.net> wrote: > 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"; > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > LinuxUsers@socallinux.org > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >
