[olug] [OT] My friend has a broken hard drive

[Lou Duchez]

I've used SpinRite many times over the years, and I've seen it save 
otherwise unsalvageable drives.

One very big caveat, however: SpinRite doesn't deal well at all with 
SATA drives, which I find is pretty much all drives in new computers 
over the past few years.  The successor to SpinRite seems to be HDD 
Regenerator; it has enough in common with SpinRite to make me think it 
was at least inspired by SpinRite.  I've recently used HDD Regenerator 
to fix a SATA hard drive.

> I just used SpinRite[1] and was pretty happy with it. Roughly same
> situation; system failed, couldn't get a disk image due to HD errors.
> This fixed it so that I could get a disk image. As a side benefit, the
> section of the drive that consistently failed at filesystem access now
> works properly.
>
> [1] http://www.spinrite.info $89, download a 170k file. Run the .exe
> and it will create a bootable floppy/USB/CD with its own FreeDOS
> system that you then boot into and run for however long it takes.
>
> On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 21:43, Abraham<muteki.abraham at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> My friend called me this evening to let me know that his hard drive
>> (from the mid-80s) has finally failed. It was in a Macintosh G3 or G4.
>> He's been quoted some fairly unreasonable (I think) prices to get the
>> files off, and I seem to remember some folks in this group having some
>> expertise in that area. Are there any recommendations as to a
>> trustworthy place that will retrieve his files? And how much should he
>> expect to pay for something like that?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Abraham Serafino
>>
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