[dba-Tech] SpinRite or? Finished!

[John R Bartow]

Browser issues aside, I have found Tom's Hardware to be a rather frustrating
site. In its beginning it was a wonderfully technical site but the
advertising is so pervasive and the cross links between threads are
frustrating as they end up as dead ends at times.

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-Tech [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of
Heenan, Lambert
Sent: Friday, October 09, 2015 7:59 AM
To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] SpinRite or? Finished!

Hmm.  On my Windows 10 box it looks fine in Edge, Chrome and Firefox. IE for
some reason has a hard time displaying it at all. Finally did display it
after several attempts though IE says that the site is not responding.

However, on a Windows 7 VM IE displays it fine.


Curious.

Lambert

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-Tech [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of
Gustav Brock
Sent: Friday, October 09, 2015 2:32 AM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] SpinRite or? Finished!

Hi Lambert

I'll make a note of this. Thanks.

But - am I the only one that have found links to Tom's Hardware nearly
impossible to read?
With Edge, the link here is a total mess.
With IE and AdBlocker Plus it is so and so - it looks like something from
the 90s.

/gustav

-----Oprindelig meddelelse-----
Fra: dba-Tech [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] På vegne af
Heenan, Lambert
Sendt: 8. oktober 2015 22:09
Til: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
<dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Emne: Re: [dba-Tech] SpinRite or? Finished!

This site 
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/272053-32-disk-sectors-incredibly-slow-bac
k-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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