Drive Recovery Software

[Jon M. Hanson]

SpinRite doesn't do anything with the filesystem. It works directly on the physical disk. The filesystem on the disk is irrelevant.

------- Original Message -------
From: George Toft <george at georgetoft.com>
To: Main PLUG discussion list <plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: 12/21/06, 08:06:35 PM
Subject: Re: Drive Recovery Software

Does SpinRite work on NTFS?  THe manual keeps referring to a DOS partition.

(I'm getting ready for plan B as dd-rescue is almost done - yes it has 
been working over 3 weeks.)

George Toft, CISSP, MSIS
623-203-1760




Dazed_75 wrote:
> 
> 
> On 11/30/06, *Dazed_75* <lthielster at gmail.com 
> <mailto:lthielster at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     I have used a program called Spinrite from Gibson Research for
>     years.  Depending on exactly what the fault was, it may be able to
>     repair the problem.  It can take a very long time to run on a bad
>     drive.  I believe you can still download a full copy for a limited
>     time trial at http://www.grc.com if I remember correctly.  That is
>     also the home of ShieldsUp someone mentioned recently.
> 
>     Hmmm, I just went to the site and it looks like version 5 may be
>     available for free but I did not find a trial thing for version 6. 
>     BTW, version 6 is far from new.  Steve has been promising an upgrade
>     to 6 for years but seems to have too many other projects to get it
>     done.  I suspect that is because he is old like me.  :)
> 
> 
>     <snip>
> 
> 
> I just remembered a drive that Spinrite had a horrible time with.  I 
> dd'd it to a new drive as someone mentioned and SpinRite was able to fix 
> something there also.  It was not a total recovery, but it sure made it 
> easier to fix the Windoes on that drive. 
> 
> BTW, Spinrite runs on FreeDOS.
> 
> 
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