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george1234
Having hardware problems on my disk dirves, and wonder what free ware
tools are available. Is payware spinrtie still worth the cost (used
to be a long time ago) . Is there a utility that will "refresh teh
drive. I'm especially interested in something that will refresh the
data
--G
Spinrite does this
1) Examine the Surfaces
2) Recover Unreadable Data
3) Refresh the Surfaces
4) Locate Surface Errors - reads all data twice,
5) Restore Good Sectors
My problems are
~~~~Problem 1
On one drive the smart test fails
5 Reallocated Sector Count 584 FAIL
On this drive the WDC data lifegurad diagnostics won't even run...
this one is headed for the circular file
~~~~Problem 2
On another I'm getting checkdsk failure (running chkdsk /v after
running chkdsk /r)
CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 3)...
Deleting index entry tnet1130.sys in index $I30 of file 31.
....
Detected minor inconsistencies on the drive. This is not a
corruption.
Errors found. CHKDSK cannot continue in read-only mode.
~~~ system
athlon 64 w2k sp4
tools are available. Is payware spinrtie still worth the cost (used
to be a long time ago) . Is there a utility that will "refresh teh
drive. I'm especially interested in something that will refresh the
data
--G
Spinrite does this
1) Examine the Surfaces
2) Recover Unreadable Data
3) Refresh the Surfaces
4) Locate Surface Errors - reads all data twice,
5) Restore Good Sectors
My problems are
~~~~Problem 1
On one drive the smart test fails
5 Reallocated Sector Count 584 FAIL
On this drive the WDC data lifegurad diagnostics won't even run...
this one is headed for the circular file
~~~~Problem 2
On another I'm getting checkdsk failure (running chkdsk /v after
running chkdsk /r)
CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 3)...
Deleting index entry tnet1130.sys in index $I30 of file 31.
....
Detected minor inconsistencies on the drive. This is not a
corruption.
Errors found. CHKDSK cannot continue in read-only mode.
~~~ system
athlon 64 w2k sp4