At $89, I would go buy a 1tb or so drive, and play from within linux.
Specifically, take dd and clone the drive to a file so you can use loopback
device on it. Then proceed with extracting out the partitions if you can. If
the filesystem isn't hosed, you can just mount and copy away the files. If
On 04/23/2011 06:47 AM, Jack Coats wrote:
Any suggestions on making this easier? I am using crashplan, but it
doesn't do 'bare metal restores' where an image from Clonezilla would.
Again, Thanks to all who replied!
I've recently had a WD green drive start going bad. Excessively long
access
+1 vote for Spinrite. I use it all the time and I can't recommend it highly
enough.
Chris
On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 7:49 AM, Richard Thomas r...@dicksonlife.comwrote:
On 04/23/2011 06:47 AM, Jack Coats wrote:
Any suggestions on making this easier? I am using crashplan, but it
doesn't do
I dont have a copy currently but I have seen spinrite work miracles
with the huge drive sizes nowadays the price of it pales in comparison
to the value of a TB of data
definitely let linux take a look at the drive and grab what you can from it
letting windows try to fix it on its own is asking
BTW
If you get Spinrite, take a vacation
It will take a LONG time to scan your drive
but it is worth it
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I have uses Spinrite in the past. Yes, running for multiple days on a
500G drive might be the right order of magnitude!
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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
I would suggest buying a copy of SpinRite.
http://www.grc.com/intro.htm
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 trying
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%
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
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