OT: 2.5" hdd data recovery

[Ralph Ellis]

On Sunday 06 August 2006 10:00 pm, Meng Cheah wrote:
> Ralph Ellis wrote:
> >I don't know if it could help but SpinRite is a program with a strong
> > success rate with date recovery but you would have to connect the drive
> > so some sort of IDE controller. See
> >www.grc.com
> >Good luck
>
> Has anyone personal experience of data recovery with SpinRite?
> I want to know the general consensus with regard to data recovery before
> spending the money.
>
> A couple of my former colleagues have used it for checking drives; they
> liked it.
> There was a drive which while being formatted, hung.
> After a couple of hours, the box was rebooted.
> I tried SpinRite among other utilities, nothing worked.
> The drive was "fubar"ed.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Meng Cheah
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In my case SpinRite fixed a persistent disk error that would not go away 
rather than data recovery. If a sector has been trashed at the lowest 
hardware level then there is no recovery. If the data is still there at the 
hardware level and the damage is at the level where the formating is then you 
have a chance of recovery.
Ralph Ellis
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