1. Re: Hard Drive Precautions (was Flash based IDE drives...

["Rob Danielson" danielson_rob]

Aaron and RAF--
Do you have experience using the apps and methods you suggest to 
recover a large sound file that was written to a volume that has or 
develops unreadable blocks?  Can they make the file playable again 
(sans missing data)? Rob D.

At 5:02 PM +0000 8/7/07, RAF wrote:
>I'll put in my fave:  Spinrite6
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>http://www.grc.com
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>I've recovered data from failed drives and trashed OS where re
>formatting is not an option. Reads all file systems because it's not
>recovering file formats but 1's and 0's. It'll recovery data, perform
>HD maintainence, independently scans the HD for defects and re-write
>the sector table.
>