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 for trouble

On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 8:56 AM, Chris McQuistion
<[email protected]> wrote:
> +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 <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>>
>> 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 times & CRC errors, if installed as a regular drive it would hang the
>> computer. I ended up using a USB adapter and robocopy to just keep banging
>> away at it until I had all the files off (Yes, I know robocopy is a
>> Microsoft solution but whatever works...).
>>
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