On 23 Jun 2010 at 10:02, Jeff Brown wrote: > one of the owners wants the answer to this question: "If a drive > becomes unusable(physical issue with the drive) will this make it > impossible for us to recover data from that drive?"
If the drive is recognized in the BIOS, you can run SpinRite against it. SpinRite works below the OS, at the sector level, and can recover data there. Once SpinRite has done its magic recovering the bad sectors, you should be able to boot the OS again. -- Angus Scott-Fleming GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona 1-520-290-5038 Security Blog: http://geoapps.com/ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
