On 12/17/2018 12:42 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
There is of course no guarantee that it will EVER successfully read all your data. You might be able to tell it to skip blocks and move on. Obviously all it can do is keep asking the drive to try again. If you want better than that then you're talking clean room rescue measures.

As long as the drive isn't going into physical failure; bearings, thermal death, etc, you may be okay.

I'm a fan of SpinRite. I've had SpinRite recover things that everything else said was impossible to recover. SpinRite addresses media issues and helps the drive detect that there is a problem. SpinRite also has a mode, DynaStat, that it will try many many many times to read a given sector using all sorts of tricks, head seek patterns, etc. (You can also alter it's default behavior to try more or fewer times.)

There is no trial copy of SpinRite. But GRC does have a good return policy. If you buy SpinRite to recover your drive, and are unsatisfied, they will very very extremely likely give you your money back. (There is a tiny fraction of a chance that they won't refund your money if you don't try the things they ask to make sure that you aren't using SpinRite properly.) So, it's not like you are out money if it doesn't work. (I think it's MSRP of ~$90.)

Aside: It sounds like your drive might think that it has problems reading the media, which is SpinRite's domain.

Make sure the drive is not overheating. Even a lowly 80 mm case fan will move more than enough air to keep the average drive cool enough, even during heavy use / data recovery.

Once you know that you have good magnetic media, then you can start playing to reconstruct your partition.

So, SpinRite is an option before places like DriveSavers (or what ever name they go by). Even they have a no-guarantee of recovery policy.

If you're trying to rescue your bittorrent collection I'd suggest moving on.

I misread "bittorrent" as "bitcoin". That /might/ be another story. Depending on how many BTC you have.



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