Any Hard Disc 'Bad Sector' repair programs?
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From: Richard Steinfeld on 14 Jun 2005 02:40 Howard Schwartz wrote: > derek / nul <newsgroupspamtrap(a)sgrail.org> wrote in > news:9foqa153usbiqe5t7kpd2q9vkavrhvob8i(a)4ax.com: > > >>On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 09:26:50 +0100, John Latter >><jorolat(a)tiscali.co.uk> wrote: >> >>>Are there any freeware programs which can recover 'bad sectors'? >> > > Funny: There ia a program called revive.exe that does this for floppy > disks: salvages as much data as possible from bad sectors and moves > the data. It uses multiple reads of the disk to optomize this. Do > not see why such a program could not be written for a hard disk. > (Revive is an old, freeware dos program). > Yup. That's exactly the idea I meant in my post. I wonder if it's possible to read the hard disk with Revive.exe at the dos level, and pull the data off to another disk, like a floppy. I'm thinking that the actual low-magnetic data would be a very small chunk -- a cunk that could easily fit on a floppy. Richard
From: Doc on 14 Jun 2005 03:18 Marten Kemp <martendespamkemp(a)thisplanet-link.net> wrote in news:tZnre.4636$pa3.4072(a)newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net: > Franklin wrote: > >> On Mon 13 Jun 2005 15:43:29, Marten Kemp wrote: >> <news:lYgre.3331$eM6.3120(a)newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net> >> >>>>Can`t be done John. You could download `powermax` from the >>>>maxtor site, make a boot disk and test the drive in DOS. This >>>>will give you an indication of the condition of the drive. I`m >>>>afraid bad sectors are gone for good. best wishes..J >>> >>>Note about powermax: unlike the drive test software from other >>>manufacturers, powermax works on any drive, regardless of who >>>made it. >>> >>>If you want to retrieve the data from bad sectors, I'm afraid >>>that jon is correct -- they're gone forever. If, on the other >>>hand, you want to delete the bad sectors powermax will remap >>>good sectors to the addresses of the bad ones, giving you a >>>"clean" drive that's very slightly smaller. >> >> Some people say that SpinRite can recover "semi-bad" sectors but I am >> not so sure. And, worse still, it is rather expensive $$$ware. > > IIRC, SpinRite was okay at aggressive retries Back In The Old Days > of MFM and RLL drives where the controller logic was separate from > the drive. These days, I _think_ that IDE drives do the retries > themselves and software is unlikely to do any better. > > Of course, YMMV. My experience with SpinRite was to optimize the > interleave on MFM drives, so I definitely could be wrong. > Spinrite HAS "evolved" with the times. Version 6 now. -- Adam and Eve - the worlds happiest couple ever. Neither had a mother-in-law.
From: David on 14 Jun 2005 03:35 On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 21:19:07 +0200, "Rudolf Gerhard Hýcherl" <Rudi.Hoecherl(a)t-online.de> typed furiously: >try a programm called llf.exe (low level format).You need a DOS-Start-Disk >with this DOS-Program and after you do the job, windows called you a factory >new HDD. Good luck. >Greetings >machinehead666 > Back up your data first. -- David Remove "farook" to reply At the bottom of the application where it says "sign here". I put "Sagittarius"
From: Marten Kemp on 14 Jun 2005 13:38 Doc wrote: > Marten Kemp <martendespamkemp(a)thisplanet-link.net> wrote in > news:tZnre.4636$pa3.4072(a)newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net: > > >>Franklin wrote: >> >> >>>On Mon 13 Jun 2005 15:43:29, Marten Kemp wrote: >>><news:lYgre.3331$eM6.3120(a)newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net> >>> >>>>>Can`t be done John. You could download `powermax` from the >>>>>maxtor site, make a boot disk and test the drive in DOS. This >>>>>will give you an indication of the condition of the drive. I`m >>>>>afraid bad sectors are gone for good. best wishes..J >>>> >>>>Note about powermax: unlike the drive test software from other >>>>manufacturers, powermax works on any drive, regardless of who >>>>made it. >>>> >>>>If you want to retrieve the data from bad sectors, I'm afraid >>>>that jon is correct -- they're gone forever. If, on the other >>>>hand, you want to delete the bad sectors powermax will remap >>>>good sectors to the addresses of the bad ones, giving you a >>>>"clean" drive that's very slightly smaller. >>> >>>Some people say that SpinRite can recover "semi-bad" sectors but I am >>>not so sure. And, worse still, it is rather expensive $$$ware. >> >>IIRC, SpinRite was okay at aggressive retries Back In The Old Days >>of MFM and RLL drives where the controller logic was separate from >>the drive. These days, I _think_ that IDE drives do the retries >>themselves and software is unlikely to do any better. >> >>Of course, YMMV. My experience with SpinRite was to optimize the >>interleave on MFM drives, so I definitely could be wrong. >> > Spinrite HAS "evolved" with the times. Version 6 now. > Okay. -- -- Marten Kemp (Fix name and ISP to reply)
From: Al Smith on 16 Jun 2005 22:34
>>Some people say that SpinRite can recover "semi-bad" sectors but I am >>>not so sure. And, worse still, it is rather expensive $$$ware. > > > (OT) > Is that still going? I last used it around 1994. It was brilliant then > so I presume it is still as good or better. I sometimes haunt the Gibson newsgroups, so I can say that Steve Gibson upgraded spinrite last year. Everyone says it's the cat's pajamas. |