Bobby Heid
bheid at sc.rr.com
Sat Feb 28 15:09:13 CST 2009
I do not have it (although I keep meaning to get it), I have always heard good things about SpinRite. http://www.grc.com/spinrite.htm Thanks, Bobby -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Tina Norris Fields Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 3:56 PM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: [dba-Tech] External Hard Drive Failing Hi, I've been using a SimpleTech 120Gb USB external hard drive for my backup storage. It's also the one place I've been putting all my downloaded files, and all my photos. It started making little sounds reminiscent of a floppy drive having trouble reading a diskette formatted on another drive - you know, the bearings are worn just a little differently, so the tracks don't line up perfectly when the disk is being accessed in one machine, but there is no problem when it's being accessed in the other machine. The external drive started making that kind of sound - having a little trouble reading. I was thinking that I would replace that hard drive soon, but it stopped reading before I got around to replacing it. Now any attempt to access it results in the message that the drive is not formatted and would I like to format it now. No, I don't want to format it now - I want to copy all the backed up stuff I have on it and put it all on the nice new 500Gb external hard drive I have. What tools are out there that do what the Norton Utilities used to do back in DOS days? There used to be a good Norton Utility that let one have access to a disk that DOS couldn't read - what's out there now that I might use to recover the good stuff I put away on this drive for safekeeping? I will appreciate any help at all on this. Tina _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com