Hard Drive Recovery

GURPS

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member
PeoplesElbow said:
I have a 100GB hard drive that I had used in 4 desktops, the only reason that I did not put it in my latest build is my motherboard does not have an IDE connector, last one had both SATA and IDE.
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I have a couple of HD Movies that are 15 - 20 gb ... that would only hold a couple
 
PeoplesElbow

PeoplesElbow

Well-Known Member
GURPS said:
I have a couple of HD Movies that are 15 - 20 gb ... that would only hold a couple
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It wasn't my main drive since the first computer it was in, just a nice extra drive to have in the computer.

Back when it was my main drive I had a 10GB slave in that computer.
 
GURPS

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member
PeoplesElbow said:
It wasn't my main drive since the first computer it was in, just a nice extra drive to have in the computer.

Back when it was my main drive I had a 10GB slave in that computer.
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:cheers:



of course



.... I remember when I bought my 1st 8.4 ... :party:
 
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Hodr

Guest
PsyOps said:
Does anyone know anything about a program called 'Spinrite'?
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Spinrite (up to I believe 5.0) was a very good program to use for drives connected to an IDE/EIDE interface (I don't believe it worked the same way with SCSI or SATA).

It was particularly effective for failing devices because it used it's own proprietary low level driver that allowed it to do things like read a sector with/without ECC, thermal correction, read-caching, etc. in order to compare results and achieve a successful read where the OS could not, or if not it often could intelligently guess the contents of a failed sector closely enough that the file systems error correction could later fix the file.

I personally used the software to recover files from drives that were considered to be dead (and recovery attempts were made with other software), however it was not a quick process. I remember that it could take days for troublesome drives, and we are talking 80 or 100GB drives. Not multi-TB drives.
 
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PsyOps

PsyOps

Pixelated
Hodr said:
Spinrite (up to I believe 5.0) was a very good program to use for drives connected to an IDE/EIDE interface (I don't believe it worked the same way with SCSI or SATA).

It was particularly effective for failing devices because it used it's own proprietary low level driver that allowed it to do things like read a sector with/without ECC, thermal correction, read-caching, etc. in order to compare results and achieve a successful read where the OS could not, or if not it often could intelligently guess the contents of a failed sector closely enough that the file systems error correction could later fix the file.

I personally used the software to recover files from drives that were considered to be dead (and recovery attempts were made with other software), however it was not a quick process. I remember that it could take days for troublesome drives, and we are talking 80 or 100GB drives. Not multi-TB drives.
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Given this is a SATA 1TB drive, it sounds like Spinrite isn't the best tool.
 
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