<div dir="ltr"><div>It's actually spelled SpinRite, and it can be purchased here: <a href="https://www.grc.com/cs/prepurch.htm">https://www.grc.com/cs/prepurch.htm</a><br><br></div>I highly recommend it.<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 11:31 AM, Rick Troth <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rmt@casita.net" target="_blank">rmt@casita.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>On 09/21/2016 05:04 PM, Jeff Frontz
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 2:45 PM, Rick
Troth <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rmt@casita.net" target="_blank">rmt@casita.net</a>></span>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Meanwhile,
I'm looking for disk/data recovery advice. </blockquote>
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What's the failure mode? If the drive is still spinning and
able to (sometimes) do read/writes, you might try something like
SpinWrite.</blockquote>
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SpinWrite ... I'll check that out. <br>
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The symptom is that the disk clicks several times and never shows up
under <font face="Courier New, Courier, monospace">/proc/partitions</font>.
I haven't dug into <font face="Courier New, Courier, monospace">/sys/devices</font>
yet. <br>
This is after pulling it from my wife's Toshiba laptop (which can't
boot, obviously) and putting it into an HP Pavilion "server". <br>
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She found it clicking yesterday morning, as if it had been clicking
perpetually for a while. <br>
When she rebooted, it failed, so I took the disk out for analysis. <br>
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It's loose on a shelf, tethered with SATA and power, so I can hold
it and feel the disk spinning. <br>
So it doesn't sound like a stiction problem. <br><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
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