I've used SpinRite many times with success for recovering bad drives. We also use SpinRite as a matter of course whenever we get machines back in or deploy new ones just to see whats going on with the drive before redeploying. However, it doesnt work well with Seagate drives because the SMART counters on Seagates are apparently proprietary. (SpinRite might say there are millions of ECC or Seek errors but SeaTools says the drive is fine.)
- Andy O. ________________________________________ From: Joe Fox [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 10:40 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Seagate HDs I know I mentioned this in an earlier thread today, but I have heard people have had a lot of success with GRC's SpinRite for recovering "bad" hard drives. Usually it can make the drive usable again, although I would probably replace the drive shortly after SpinRite'ing it. -Joe ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
