Vince Teachout wrote: > Peter Cushing wrote: >> I would take it that the hard disk contents were toast and reformat it. >> I probably wouldn't even trust the hard disk again after a failure as >> they are so cheap. > > Eh... I'm not quite that desperate, yet. I HAVE already made a complete > backup of everything, just in case, and plan to make a DD image this > weekend. I'm pretty sure though that Spinrite fixed the problem, and > marked the sectors unusable. Disks are cheap, but it's the days of time > required to move everything over to a new hard drive that I would > dread. :-)
Days of time? Ghosting a drive might take a few minutes setup/cleanup and then a number of hours of doing something else (sleeping?) -- pkm ~ http://paulmcnett.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
