I have heard nothing but good things about Spin Rite from Steve Gibson - http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm.
>From the web site: "SpinRite is able to operate on all Windows XP NTFS formats, all DOS FAT, all Linux file systems, Novell, Macintosh (if temporarily moved into a PC) or anything else — it can even be used to repair and recover the hard drive from an ailing TiVo!: On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 8:44 PM, Daniel Herrington <[email protected]> wrote: > All, > > My hd in my laptop just failed. Since I've been on the road for 4 weeks, I > haven't been able to rsynch with my file server. Since It gives a soft > beeping (probably not a real beeping but some mechanical failure), are there > any open source diagnostic tools that would even work? I've pulled the drive > and put it in a usb shell, but plugging in the drive doesn't even show in > dmesg at all. > > Is my only route an expensive repair shop? > > thanks, > > -- > Daniel B. Herrington > Director of Field Services > Robert Mark Technologies > [email protected] > o: 651-769-2574 > m: 503-358-8575 > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
