I bought a copy of Spinrite and it recovered a drive that wouldn't boot.
When rebuilding my PCs, I run Spinrite on the drives to make sure a drive is not failing. I've used it to decide when to retire my HDs. It's been months since I've used it, I should probably do a preemptive run, but on large drives it takes a long time. The older BIOSes sometimes can't handle a large partition. I haven't tried "freezing" a drive. This reminds me of the ancient Seagate insufficient startup torque problem. At work I was able to unfasten the hard drive and, at power-up, give the drive a quick physical rotation, just enough to get it spinning and then copy the user's data from it. Of course, users don't back up their files. Mike - AA8K Dave Baxter wrote:
For many "failed" hard drives, it's not a "hardware" failure at all, but a very corrupted data surface, rendering even the drives own error
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