In message <[email protected]>, Daniel Feenberg writes: >> Actually Spinrite runs under FreeDOS as a standalone >> program. I've managed to get a drive to a readable >> state to recover all the relevant data once (out of >> one try), and used it on a pile of used disks to >> determine their worthiness for re-use. > >The website gives no indication of what spinrite >does. Does it just keep trying sector reads longer >than usual? That (and marking those sectors as bad) >was plenty usefull when it was sold to owners of >broken IBM AT computers 25 years ago. That wouldn't >seem to be very usefull nowadays.
Why wouldn't it be? Bad block recoverery and remapping is always useful. Now will it take forever on large disks. Yup. If you are asking if it supports SATA, I am not sure, but I think I have seen dos boot disks on UBCD that seem to support SATA, so it's not out of the question. >Can it reconstruct the partition table or do anything >else relevant to an ntfs or ext3 filesystem on a SATA >drive? Not that I can see from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpinRite it looks like the standard: keep rereading the sector till you get good data and move that data to another (hopefully good) sector. If your sector is really toast well you are out of luck. I use fsck or chkdsk to do the filesystem checking. Data recovery tools operate at a lower level. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard =========================================================================== My employers don't acknowledge my existence much less my opinions. _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
