Timeline for How to *quickly* get a list of files that have bad sectors/blocks/clusters/whatever?
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| May 23, 2019 at 21:13 | comment | added | GabrielB | DO NOT USE SPINRITE ON A FAILING HDD. Its ability to "refresh", let alone "fix", is dubious at best, and while it's running, which is highly stressful for an already defective drive, not a single byte of data is actually recovered. It may be used at the very end, once a full clone has been made with ddrescue / HDDSuperClone, to attempt to salvage some of the sectors that were skipped (but don't count on it, most likely it will just force them to be reallocated, hence the original data will be lost anyway). See Scott Petrack's reply for the best course of action in such a situation. | |
| Feb 18, 2011 at 11:13 | history | answered | happy_soil | CC BY-SA 2.5 |