Re: [nlug] disk drive issues

Having used Spinrite before on a few occasions I would agree it is worth a shot. I would probably try putting it in a Linux box and backing everything up I could get from the drive first (my bit about that will show up a bit later). Dave On Fri, 2011-04-22 at 14:23 -0500, Bruce W. Martin wrote:

Re: [nlug] disk drive issues

I am a bit late, so someone may have said something I have not read yet. Last Windows box that I had to resurrect I put the drive in one of my LInux boxes and enabled the proper file system. I was not able to get that drive to work on a Windows box at all. I was able to recover better than 95% o

Re: [nlug] disk drive issues

I would suggest buying a copy of SpinRite. Running a level 2 or level 4 will probably take care of the problem. Then it might be a good idea to get a replacement drive. Bruce On Apr 22, 2011, at 12:37 PM, Jack Coats wrote: > I have a 500G WD drive that I am tryin

[nlug] disk drive issues

I have a 500G WD drive that I am trying to use clonezilla on. During the clonezilla boot process is says the WD drive has an invalid CHS sector Is there a way to override that? The bios bypasses that drive and does not detect the drive. Sometimes I can boot windows on it (my wifes desktop, with l