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On 12/17/2018 12:42 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> There is of course no guarantee that it will EVER successfully read all |
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> your data. You might be able to tell it to skip blocks and move on. |
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> Obviously all it can do is keep asking the drive to try again. If you |
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> want better than that then you're talking clean room rescue measures. |
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As long as the drive isn't going into physical failure; bearings, |
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thermal death, etc, you may be okay. |
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I'm a fan of SpinRite. I've had SpinRite recover things that everything |
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else said was impossible to recover. SpinRite addresses media issues |
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and helps the drive detect that there is a problem. SpinRite also has a |
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mode, DynaStat, that it will try many many many times to read a given |
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sector using all sorts of tricks, head seek patterns, etc. (You can |
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also alter it's default behavior to try more or fewer times.) |
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There is no trial copy of SpinRite. But GRC does have a good return |
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policy. If you buy SpinRite to recover your drive, and are unsatisfied, |
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they will very very extremely likely give you your money back. (There |
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is a tiny fraction of a chance that they won't refund your money if you |
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don't try the things they ask to make sure that you aren't using |
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SpinRite properly.) So, it's not like you are out money if it doesn't |
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work. (I think it's MSRP of ~$90.) |
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Aside: It sounds like your drive might think that it has problems |
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reading the media, which is SpinRite's domain. |
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Make sure the drive is not overheating. Even a lowly 80 mm case fan |
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will move more than enough air to keep the average drive cool enough, |
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even during heavy use / data recovery. |
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Once you know that you have good magnetic media, then you can start |
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playing to reconstruct your partition. |
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So, SpinRite is an option before places like DriveSavers (or what ever |
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name they go by). Even they have a no-guarantee of recovery policy. |
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> If you're trying to rescue your bittorrent collection I'd suggest |
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> moving on. |
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I misread "bittorrent" as "bitcoin". That /might/ be another story. |
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Depending on how many BTC you have. |
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Grant. . . . |
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