[Tfug] Drive recovery

[Jordan Aberle]

Oh yes spinrite is a very good program, takes a long time to run though,
prepare to run it for 24-48 hours but it's worth while.  It was created in
assembly and doesn't care what kind of data is on the drive.

On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 12:14 AM, Angus Scott-Fleming <angussf at geoapps.com>wrote:

> On 3 Jun 2009 at 22:27, Harry McGregor  wrote:
>
> > dd will barf with i/o errors, dd_rescue will continue reading.
> >
> > There is also GNU ddrescue (not the same as dd_rescue), and it does a
> > good job too.
> >
> > http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html
> >
> > http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/ddrescue/
>
> I wonder how these compare in recovery ability to the non-free, non-OSS
> program
> SpinRite?
>
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