[dba-Tech] SpinRite or?

[Gustav Brock]

Hi all

Now passed the 5% mark with 68 GB copied ...

/gustav

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Fra: dba-Tech [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] På vegne af Gustav Brock
Sendt: 5. maj 2015 10:49
Til: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Emne: Re: [dba-Tech] SpinRite or?

Hi Jim and John

I launched SpinRite and started a repair. But when it had calculated (still incrementing) the time to 16000(!) hours, I realized this was probably not the route. The drive is 2 TB (1.8 net), one partion, and 1 TB data.

Problem is, that the drive is alive but transfer speed is extremely slow. 

You could think, you could just xcopy the files, but it doesn't work because of the slow transfer which, ultimately, causes Windows to time out.

So I turned to Yodot (the drive repair version at USD 80) which, as the first, tries to pull the data off the drive before attempting a repair. This seems to run - at about 330 MB per hour. 

Speak about patience: my little calculator tells me that the job will go on for 140 days ...

/gustav

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Fra: dba-Tech [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] På vegne af Jim Lawrence
Sendt: 3. maj 2015 23:32
Til: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Emne: Re: [dba-Tech] SpinRite or?

Hi Gustav:

As you would suspect I would recommend a Linux solution, the Ubuntu Rescue Mix... :http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=06652

...download the ISO and write same to a boot CD/DVD and run the SATA, interrogation app from the desktop and fixes via the LIVE CD...no changes to the host computer's OS is done. I have had no first hand experience but an acquaintance had a successful recovery. GParted is another universal application that can fix any partition, from EXT4 to NTFS (Note that GParted does not currently support the Ubuntu (15.04)...but you can always download the latest source and then configure and compile it yourself.) ;-): 

http://askubuntu.com/questions/47700/fix-corrupt-ntfs-partition-without-windows

I have heard that that the company Yodot has some excellent SATA recovery software...It costs about $40: 

http://www.yodot.com/hard-drive-recovery/from-damaged-sata-hard-drive.html    

HTH
Jim

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From: "Gustav Brock" <gustav at cactus.dk>
To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2015 1:30:20 PM
Subject: [dba-Tech] SpinRite or?

Hi all

I have a 2 TB SATA disk which has gone bad. It is marked in Windows' Disk Manager with "Error" and "at risk".

Decades ago I would have fired up SpinRite, but would that be of any use today? It's a USD 90 purchase.
Or would you have other/better recommendations?

/gustav