[Tfug] Drive recovery

[Jordan Aberle]

I've used it many times for data recovery, the longest I have ever seen it
take was 48 hours, I say let it run for a few days if the estimated time
still says 45 days then stop it.  The time remaining does change depending
on what part of the drive it's scanning (it might be on a cluster of bad
sectors for example).  You have to ask yourself how much time is the data
worth?  A simple data recovery attempt or days?
Here is a video explaining how Spinrite works:
http://media.grc.com/sr6_on_techtv.zip

-Jordan

On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 7:14 AM, Harry McGregor <micros at osef.org> wrote:

> 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
> >     GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona
> >     1-520-290-5038
> >     +-----------------------------------+
> >
> >
> >
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