[dba-Tech] SpinRite or? Finished!

[Gustav Brock]

Hi Jim

Cheer up! The data _were_ recovered by Yodot during the ~160 days.
The drive still works - only at an extremely low transfer rate that, in real life, renders it useless.

/gustav

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Fra: dba-Tech <dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com> på vegne af Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca>
Sendt: 8. oktober 2015 20:23
Til: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Emne: Re: [dba-Tech] SpinRite or? Finished!

Hi Gustav:

That is so sad and we all had such hopes of a successful recovery.

Jim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gustav Brock" <gustav at cactus.dk>
To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 8, 2015 1:03:14 AM
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

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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