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

[Rob Townley]

On a side note, mhdd is bootable from the PartedMagic Live cd.   So if
you were bummed the website no longer exists and found out the author
sold it to Seagate and ceased development, download the PartedMagic
ISO.


On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 1:44 AM, Lou Duchez <lou at paprikash.com> wrote:
> 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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