f6dc1ece68 That's the second time SpinRite has saved me. Hooray to SpinRite! Now I am his hero, but actually you are! Thank you very much on behalf of my friend who got all of his data back thanks to SpinRite. But if SpinRite does appears to be permanently hung up on one location, the following things have worked for past SpinRite users: Verify that the hardware (motherboard, drive controllers, etc.) in your system are using the latest BIOS and/or firmware versions. It has a half a terabyte hard drive, and because this laptop does a lot of stuff in the background on my home network, I dreaded the thought of having to replace the laptop or hard drive and getting everything installed again. However, I was working the day before offsite with no local backup so I was faced with losing a full day's work which equated to about 12 gigabytes. It wasn't terribly important, but I didn't want to lose it, so I had it mirrored to a backup drive. Spinrite user and Security Now listener since episode 1, Nathan Huebener, Marion, Iowa . I had purchased SpinRite a couple of years ago and hadn't used it yet, but I thought this would be a great opportunity. List of data recovery software S.M.A.R.T. ScanDisk replaces the original DOS CHKDSK command, which verified the logical file system structure of the hard drive (the newer CHKDSK command no longer performs that function).
It should first be run under Windows to choose and create some form of bootable media. All the best to you, Leo and all of both of your loved ones for a happy and joyful Christmas break and thanks again! Tim Green . GRC's web and customer privacy policy. Each evening, I was copying my camera cards to both my netbook (equipped with a 96 Gb SSD drive) and to a 32 Gb USB thumb drive, since I was quickly filling up my camera cards. -Matt . When SpinRite is not actively running on the drive, the "static" state of the drive's SMART data is displayed. It is already being exploited on the Internet. And then we'll see where we are.
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