Re: [opensuse] Is there a way to read data from a hdd, with a worm eaten bootsector?
- From: Robert Smits <bob@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:35:30 -0700
On June 30, 2008 05:23:41 am James Knott wrote:
Oddball wrote:
James Knott schreef:
The problem with Spinrite is that it attempts to repair the drive,
rather than copy the data to another drive. This means if it messes
up, you've lost everything. It's far safer to copy the drive
contents to another drive and work on recovery there.
While it's certainly prudent to make a copy (if you can) of the damaged drive
if you have data on your drive that isn't being read, it's not going to be
copied, either.
Spinrite does nondestructive repair and if the problem is damaged areas that
can't be read it's a good solution. It interacts directly with magnetic
storage media at a level below any installed operating system. SpinRite
introduced the concept of non-destructive low-level reformatting and sector
interleave optimization which means that the software can read, analyze,
correct then rewrite every tiny bit of data on a hard drive, re-establishing
the formatting, without losing any original data, without screwing up your
files or messing up your partitions, or fouling up the factory low-level
formatting of any hard drive.
So if you're at the point where your hard drive is unable to read data you've
just got to get off it, Spinrite is a helluva lot cheaper than sending your
drive to a data recovery centre where they disassemble and rebuild the drive
with new parts.
I've used it to recover an 80GB laptop drive completely.
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