taking care of bad sectors... easy stuff. Was: Re: hard drive data recovery

From: John Higginbotham <higginbo_at_netpath.net>
Date: Tue Jul 14 22:28:16 1998

I'll bring it back on topic: Spinrite is some powerful hoodoo. I used it
alot on Seagate ST-225 drives. I'm never one to use any questionable
sectors though: Some of those drives had less than 10mb when I was through
with them. I don't trust iffy sectors.

At 08:06 PM 7/14/98 -0500, Poesie wrote:

>version 5, i got version 4 for about 20 bucks. This is kind of off-topic and
>doesn't cover a whole lot of you out there, but when you buy a box of 100
>drives that are all "bad", you can sometimes salvage quite a few of them.

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