Timeline for Seagate harddrive unmounted, gives "daemon inhibited"?
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| Jan 7, 2012 at 0:58 | comment | added | XXL | Couldn't agree more with ppumkin here, exactly my experience. From where I'm standing - a couple of GNU tools and a few tweaks are going to accomplish a lot more than an infinite amount of Spinrite instances. This piece of software is simply already redundant. You clearly do not need it in order to properly deal with bad sectors nowadays. Also, +1 for hddguru, a good place to get pointed in the right direction and grab some technical knowledge along the way. | |
| Jan 6, 2012 at 23:34 | comment | added | Piotr Kula | Well I am glad you can asses that situation, because many times .. I got hard drives that were rammed to death with spinrite and had to replace heads.. when a simple PIO mode with CRC disabled will get the data back within hours/days and the HDD will still live to tell another story. Did not mean to offend you.. I just dont like spinrite. | |
| Jan 6, 2012 at 23:05 | comment | added | Doltknuckle | There is nothing worse than spending a ton of money on expensive data recovery when all that was wrong was a bad sector. That's the only thing that spinrite will prevent. It can tell you in about 5 minutes if the drive needs to go to an expert or not. | |
| Jan 6, 2012 at 22:55 | comment | added | Doltknuckle | @ppumkin - I've had multiple instances of spinrite saving a computer. I've also have had multiple instances where spinrite does absolutely nothing. It depends on the condition of the drive and what is actually wrong. I've had un-mountable volumes come back after spinrite found some bad sectors in the first 1% of the drive. Just attempting to read the first few sectors can tell you a lot of what is going on. If spinrite has problems reading the drive, then it's probably a mechanical/electrical issue and outside the skill level of most users. | |
| Jan 6, 2012 at 20:54 | comment | added | Piotr Kula | @Doitknuckle - Sorry i meant the HDDGuru Forums. There are many professionals there form all over the world. Ye- spinrite it only good to refresh sectors on a non failing, or not suspected to fail drive. Rendering spinrite useless, because who refreshed sectors now a days? In my whole career of recovering data never did once spinrite manage to accomplish anything worth talking about. If it is software related, spinrite wont fix it, if its hardware, spinrite wont fix it, and this forum is not for data recovery, hdd guru forum is. And if the disk is unmountable.. how will spinrite help? | |
| Jan 6, 2012 at 20:36 | comment | added | Doltknuckle | Just to be clear to everyone, Spinrite is designed to be used on drives without mechanical or electrical problems. It does best when you are trying to recover a bad sector or a mangled file. If the drive is clicking, don't bother. The drive is too damaged to use this software title. | |
| Jan 6, 2012 at 20:32 | comment | added | Doltknuckle | @ppumkin - So what do you suggest? Your comment above talks about going to hddguru which is mainly a collection of free software drive utilities. If there is a mechanical or electrical problem, you don't want to use anything on that site because it may cause a bad drive to fail. The only thing I think would be useful is the scenario you mention is the Raw Copy Tool. It will copy of the contents of the platter to a working drive so you can then use other software titles to re construct your data. | |
| Jan 6, 2012 at 19:21 | comment | added | Doltknuckle | @ppumkin - If the hardware is bad, you are right, there is nothing that can be done by a local user. If the drive can read the platter, Spinrite will do a sector by sector read of the data and try to recover it. It's a last ditch effort before you either call in an expensive data recovery export or give up and trash the drive. | |
| Jan 4, 2012 at 10:36 | comment | added | Piotr Kula | spinrite is used to analyse/test working hard drives.. not used to fix borken ones. in this case it wont even help him. | |
| May 19, 2011 at 21:32 | history | answered | Doltknuckle | CC BY-SA 3.0 |