[colug-432] I/O Error?

[Bill Baker]

Yeah, same here.  As soon as I got the data off the drive, I retired it
and replaced it with a new one.  SpinRite is definitely worth the money,
even if you only use it once.

On 12/06/2012 08:16 PM, Rick Hornsby wrote:
> 
> On Dec 6, 2012, at 17:48 PM, Bill Baker <bill_chris at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
>> Just to add my two cents and plug a piece of software, I once had a hard
>> drive that was completely dead.  Couldn't boot up or even read it as a
>> secondary drive.  All the data on it would have been gone if I hadn't
>> tried SpinRite.  After running it on the drive, I was able to recover
>> all of the data from it and even boot the drive again.  It's really an
>> amazing piece of software and it weighs in at only 170K, which includes
>> FreeDOS so that it can boot from a floppy, CD or thumb drive.  It can be
>> purchased here:
>>
>> http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm
> 
> That is really good to know, thanks.  Always keeping my eyes open for good tools like this.
> 
> Have to be honest.  I'm with the sentiment that others have expressed - get your data off the drive. now.  If a tool like spinrite lets the drive live long enough to manage that, great.  It just paid for itself and was definitely worth it.  If it brings a drive back from the dead - I'm tempted to buy it right now just to have it on hand.  
> 
> However, I'm really hesitant to ever trust the drive for anything remotely important again.  As someone else said, rip out the magnets and call it done.  Maybe try a WillItBlend experiment with the platters.  Drives are cheap compared to what you lose when it barfs on itself, and chances are you can get a bigger drive (thus risking more data to a single piece of hardware ... hmm) for whatever you bought the newly acquired doorstop for.
> 
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