[dba-Tech] SpinRite or? Finished!

[Jim Lawrence]

Hi Gustav:

Excellent news. The question now is did all the data get recovered and how long will it take to move all the data off onto a new drive?

Jim 

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gustav Brock" <gustav at cactus.dk>
To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 6, 2015 8:00:36 AM
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] SpinRite or? Finished!

Hi all

My guess at about 140 days for this job (see below) was quite precise. That would have been ultimo September.

It finished today!

I had to break it into some steps with a day in between now and then, so it was quite close.

The malfunctioning drive is running steady but at an incredibly low transfer speed. It has no warranty any longer, so does anyone know if you can "reignite" a SATA drive? In the old days you could do a low level format of a hard drive but I guess the SATA interface prohibits that.

/gustav

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Fra: dba-Tech [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] På vegne af Gustav Brock
Sendt: 19. maj 2015 15:17
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Emne: Re: [dba-Tech] SpinRite or?

Hi Jim

Now passed 10% at 117 GB ...

/gustav

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Fra: dba-Tech [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] På vegne af Gustav Brock
Sendt: 13. maj 2015 20:35
Til: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Emne: Re: [dba-Tech] SpinRite or?

Hi Jim

No I haven't - and at this time a can't plug it in. So I cross fingers, but power here is very stable.

However, the copy process of Yodot has an option for not trying to replace existing files, so worst case after a relaunch would be the extra time to read the directory structure and move through the existing file list. It couldn't take that long.

In the meantime: Passed 6% at 72 GB ...

/gustav

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Fra: dba-Tech [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] På vegne af Jim Lawrence
Sendt: 13. maj 2015 20:22
Til: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Emne: Re: [dba-Tech] SpinRite or?

Hi Gustav:

Do you have a UPS attached to the computer? It might be frustrating if the power went out sometime in September just before the program wrote the boot track.

If this works as planned Yodot will definitely be the go to application for drive recovery.

Jim 

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gustav Brock" <gustav at cactus.dk>
To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2015 12:20:23 AM
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] SpinRite or?

Hi Jim

Yes:

<quote>
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 ...
</quote>

It seems to run steady.

/gustav 

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