cglaeser 0 Posted December 23, 2010 Is SpinRite sill the gold standard for hard drive maintenance and recovery? Do you have any other favorite utilities? Best, Christopher Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hardwired 0 Posted December 23, 2010 SpinRite has worked several times for me, I have also used HDDRegenerator, on the older Hiren's bootCD (It has a ton of other good utilities on it, too), and it's free....Google it.... The newer Hiren's has HDAT2 4.53, supposed to do the same thing, although I haven't tried it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Soundy 1 Posted December 24, 2010 For a Windows-based utility, check out Unstoppable Copier from www.roadkil.net (among other great free utilities!). I've had it recover corrupted files several times, as it will keep trying as many times as you tell it to. Also handy for regular copy/move processes without the usual Windows "Are you sure?" idiot popups. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ak357 0 Posted December 24, 2010 Is SpinRite sill the gold standard for hard drive maintenance and recovery? Do you have any other favorite utilities? Best, Christopher http://www.guidancesoftware.com/ --- EnCase R-Studio Network Edition Ontrack_EasyRecovery_Professional GetDataBack.for.NTFS Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cglaeser 0 Posted December 29, 2010 GetDataBack.for.NTFS Thanks. I purchased a copy of GetDataBack for NTFS and was able to extract all the data from an otherwise inaccessible drive. Recently I used SpinRite to restore a bad drive, but I don't think SpinRite can restore drives attached via USB (it did not recognize the USB drive on one system I tested). Are there any utilities with functionality similar to SpinRite that can restore a bad drive that will recognize USB drives? Best, Christopher Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
shropna 0 Posted December 30, 2010 O.T. Is it possible to repair this HDD?: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=605894&l=2cd204ba05&id=1784037852 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites