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Oct 23, 2009, 03:06 #1
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External drive corrupt
I have a 250gb WD passport external drive which has become corrupted. It's mostly video files on it, I can see them listed but when I play them they either hang straight away or play for 5/10 mins then hang.
I've rang HDTune on the drive and it's showing bad sectors. I've ran HDD Regenerator on it and it's supposedly fixed bad sectors but I had to stop it because after one day it was only at just over 1% of the way through.
Are there any better ways of identifying the bad sectors and targetting those directly to at least let me recover the data from the drive?
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Oct 23, 2009, 11:58 #2
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Yes, there's a great product out there called SpinRite by security expert Steve Gibson, it's probably the single best tool for saving hard disks and data I've seen
http://www.grc.com/spinrite.htm
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Oct 24, 2009, 07:08 #3
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Originally Posted by AlexDawson
Have you tested this out yourself, Alex ?Who's to doom when the judge himself is dragged before the bar
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Oct 26, 2009, 10:50 #4
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Crazybanana, yes I have used it before, and it's saved a couple of hard disks which otherwise reported as totally dead, in fact it worked so well it made them entirely bootable again! Granted a couple of sectors had flopped entirely but it got everything back to the point where I could recover and backup my stuff
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Oct 26, 2009, 12:46 #5
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Thanks Alex.
Sounds like an interesting app. Think I'll give it a try, as I have quite a few disks here to test it onWho's to doom when the judge himself is dragged before the bar
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