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Guido_Ostkamp Certificates/Ratings/Crew Stations: 7. "RE: Fatal harddrive crash" 10-12-02, 22:06z  Hi Ben, > FWIW, I've had very good luck with a HD utility called Spinrite > (http://www.grc.com). As soon as a drive starts making any weird > sounds, I run Spinrite and it can usually recover the data and either > fix or mark the sector bad and move the data elsewhere. Unfortunately, > it doesn't work for NTFS. I am sure this is a Windows utility, thus it won't work with my EXT2 partitions (a Linux filesystem). And in any case, this was not just a bad block - then I would have heard other 'retrying' noises - but something more worse. I think the drive motor or axle bearing (don't know whether this is the right technical term for this in English) could have been involved, the sound was really "screaming". Fortunately I was able to save all information to my new harddisk, but it was a 12 hours operation with a lot of failures, filesystem checks and power-on/-off cycles in between. > Your experience has reminded me to backup my data! Always a good idea. Just wish, there would be a good backup media. Nowadays this is nearly an impossible job, as a CD only holds 650 MB which is nothing compared to 20-200 GB per harddisk. We have come a long way since the old days when home computers used to have cassette recorders as data storage or ran with two floppy disks only - I still remember those times back in the early eighties. Regards, Guido -OLR.PL v1.81- Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

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Subject      Author      Message Date     ID      Fatal harddrive crash    Guido_Ostkamp       10-06-02              RE: Fatal harddrive crash    Ben_Chiu       10-06-02       1            RE: Fatal harddrive crash    Guido_Ostkamp       10-12-02       7                 RE: Fatal harddrive crash    RobertVA       10-12-02       12                      RE: Fatal harddrive crash    Mike_Greenwood       10-13-02       13         RE: Fatal harddrive crash    vgbaron       10-06-02       2            RE: Fatal harddrive crash    Guido_Ostkamp       10-12-02       9         RE: Fatal harddrive crash    AlanParkinson       10-06-02       3            RE: Fatal harddrive crash    TD       10-07-02       5                 RE: Fatal harddrive crash    Guido_Ostkamp       10-12-02       8            RE: Fatal harddrive crash    Guido_Ostkamp       10-12-02       6         RE: Fatal harddrive crash    jerryrosie       10-07-02       4            RE: Fatal harddrive crash    Guido_Ostkamp       10-12-02       10         RE: Fatal harddrive crash    Guido_Ostkamp       10-12-02       11

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