Yep sounds like a head issue then? I know dr people will sometimes try to image the disk before its too late in these situations, although its debatable if the image would ever complete on this drive. If you don't need everything, probably just copy off what you want, but if everything is equally as important then try drive image xml or something. Given drive prices at the moment, try to track down a 2TB USB 3 external and just rip it apart - the Hitachi ones are good for this and it will be much cheaper than buying the exact same 2TB 7200 drive on its own. The reason why you should go for USB 3 is that with USB 2 you can get some strange drives in the enclosures - e.g. drives that aren't quite up to spec which doesn't matter when their behind the USB bottlenec. With USB 3 its much harder for companies to get away with shoving a 5400RPM that probably doesn't even perform that well inside an enclosure because of peoples speed expectations. Remember the golden rule of data recovery though; if the data's important, just pay a pro to do it. Cheers, Ben. On 3/22/12, Kerry Hoath <kerry@ciscovision.org> wrote:
You don't technically need to access the interface of spinrite. Here is what Idid:
Made my own boot disk with spinrite's executable on it media needs to be writable so a floppy or thumbdrive. boot to dos. spinrite auto drive 0 level 4 exit
Then read the log when done.
Docs contain all the command-line options.
Regards, Kerry. On 22/03/2012 10:31 AM, Brent Harding wrote:
That's what I was going to say. Steve brought up the idea on a question of accessibility of the program on Security Now and said people have done it, but the little I used DOS in DOS without Windows on top of it, the hardware synths supported by any of them might be hard to come by.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Hodgson" <andrew@hodgsonfamily.org> To: "Blind sysadmins list" <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2012 6:25 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] testing an external drive
Hi,
I used to run Spinrite a lot from a Windows boot disk running Hal Lite with a Juno speech synth and it worked fine. The issue we have now is no support for software synths under DOS, which is what Spinrite runs under.
Andrew.
-----Original Message----- From: blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Barry Toner Sent: 21 March 2012 23:11 To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] testing an external drive
Hi,
I have some private messeges with Steve Gibson and he said that it's just DOS that SR runs in. He reckoned JFW for DOS should load. Though it could have been Free DOS he meant, in which case I'm not sure if a Screen Reader can be ran from.
I'd certainly be interested in any SR walkthroughs, with or without speech.
Cheers, Barry.
-----Original Message----- From: blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Jackie McBride Sent: 21 March 2012 23:03 To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] testing an external drive
Spinrite can test USB drives if your bios is set to support it. Most newer bioses do now, but the name of the setting differs. However, spinrite, from my experience, at least, wasn't accessible.
There are lots of smart monitoring/diagnostic utils out there. I can't remember which 1 I've used--it's been awhile. Google's your best friend, in case some1 on list can't provide more info--I'm actually headed out now very quickly so time is at a premium.
First thing I think I'd do is a chkdsk on that drive using the /f & /r options to fix any file system errors/bad sectors.
On 3/21/12, David Mehler <dave.mehler@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
I know about spinrite, but I didn't think that worked on usb-attached external drives.
I've got a terabyte external drive connected by usb, it's an enclosure, but not removable, i.e. the drive came in it and it's sealed not meant to be replaced. This enclosure took a spill and hit a carpeted ground apartment say maybe four feet and it didn't show up for a while. I recycled it, disconnected and reconnected everything, and it shows up but it took what looks like casing damage and I'm hoping it didn't take internal damage, it's not making any noises and it is showing up again, I'd like to know what others use to test their external drives? Also on the subject, is anyone using the network-attached terabyte or greater drive? Which one can be recommended?
Thanks. Dave.
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