[dba-Tech] SpinRite or? Finished!

[Heenan, Lambert]

This site 
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/272053-32-disk-sectors-incredibly-slow-back-process
has the comment:


Data recovery professionals will tell you that HDD Regenerator and Spinrite are potential drive killers. Your drive appears to have bad media or weak heads. SpinRite will hammer away at a bad sector up to several thousand times, while hoping for 1 good read. This methodology can accelerate the total failure of your drive.

Your best DIY approach would be to clone your drive sector-by-sector using a tool that knows how to work around bad sectors, and then use data recovery software on the clone. 

Some freeware cloning tools are ... 

dd_rescue: http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/ddrescue/ 
ddrescue: http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html 

Comparison between ddrescue and dd_rescue: 
http://www.forensicswiki.org/wiki/Ddrescue 

Ddrescue can perform multipass cloning. It clones the easy sectors on the first pass, and attempts the more difficult ones on subsequent passes. It can also clone your drive in reverse, thereby disabling lookahead caching. It keeps a log, allowing it to resume after an interruption. 

The following thread discusses various freeware and commercial cloning tools: 
http://forum.hddguru.com/the-best-disk-cloning-hardware..

Lambert

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-Tech [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gustav Brock
Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2015 4:03 AM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] SpinRite or? Finished!

Hi all

Sadly, after three hours this tool reported "Too many bad sectors" and refused to proceed.
That's probably not the truth but the result of a time-out due to this drive's extremely slow response.

Seems like I'm left with a goodie for the recycle bin ...

/gustav

-----Oprindelig meddelelse-----
Fra: dba-Tech [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] På vegne af Gustav Brock
Sendt: 6. oktober 2015 22:50
Til: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Emne: Re: [dba-Tech] SpinRite or? Finished!

Hi Gary and John

It's a WD drive and I have located the "Western Digital Data LifeGuard Diagnostics - WinDlg (DLGDIAG for Windows)".

Will try tomorrow if it can do anything.

/gustav

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Fra: dba-Tech <dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com> på vegne af John R Bartow <jbartow at winhaven.net>
Sendt: 6. oktober 2015 20:04
Til: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
Emne: Re: [dba-Tech] SpinRite or? Finished!

Same for WD drives.

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-Tech [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gary Kjos
Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2015 11:25 AM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] SpinRite or? Finished!

Glad to hear you got the data you needed off of it. You could perhaps check on the drive manufacturers site for a low level format program.
I have heard that Seagate had one for it's drives at one time.

GK

On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 10:00 AM, Gustav Brock <gustav at cactus.dk> wrote:
> 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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