[Tfug] Drive recovery

[Harry McGregor]

Jordan Aberle wrote:
> 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.

24-48 hours?  Last time I tried to run spinrite on a reasonable size
drive (200GB range), it was estimating 45 DAYS.

Don't get me wrong, SpinRite is a really good program, but it's speed
left something to be desired.

                Harry

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