HDD regenerator

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Lord Gazwad of Grantham

A little while back I had my first ever hard drive failure.
Well, that's not strictly true, I RMA'd a drive once which was acting funny;
Another one failed but it was borrowed for troubleshooting, the trouble was
it was already ****ed so I was no better off.

Anyway, I thought I'd do some diagnostics on this POS PC I built from crap
so the chink **** can run through setting-up linux and getting a beautiful
desktop.
Whilst I was perusing the shyte available on Hiren's I came across HDD
Regenerator v1.41.
It's running now but unfortunately the ****ed drive is 80GB, it's in by 15GB
so far.

Has anyone ever used HDD Regenerator or a similar utility?
Any success?



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it. There is, however, a class of fancies of exquisite delicacy which
are not thoughts, and to which as yet I have found it absolutely
impossible to adapt to language. These fancies arise in the soul, alas
how rarely. Only at epochs of most intense tranquillity, when the
bodily and mental health are in perfection. And at those weird points
of time, where the confines of the waking world blend with the world of
dreams. And so I captured this fancy, where all that we see, or seem,
is but a dream within a dream.
 
|>A little while back I had my first ever hard drive failure.
|>Well, that's not strictly true, I RMA'd a drive once which was acting funny;
|>Another one failed but it was borrowed for troubleshooting, the trouble was
|>it was already ****ed so I was no better off.
|>
|>Anyway, I thought I'd do some diagnostics on this POS PC I built from crap
|>so the chink **** can run through setting-up linux and getting a beautiful
|>desktop.
|>Whilst I was perusing the shyte available on Hiren's I came across HDD
|>Regenerator v1.41.
|>It's running now but unfortunately the ****ed drive is 80GB, it's in by 15GB
|>so far.
|>
|>Has anyone ever used HDD Regenerator or a similar utility?
|>Any success?

Spinrite is very good at recovering HD's.

Back in the days of running a BBS when 80meg drives cost a bundle;
spinrite was the standard for bad drives with a lot of success
stories.

I did a quick scan of Hiren's 7.0 when I got it, and didn't see
spinrite, it is on 6.0. Of course you'll do the right thing and
compensate Gibson if it works I'm sure...
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Lord said:
A little while back I had my first ever hard drive failure.
Well, that's not strictly true, I RMA'd a drive once which was acting funny;
Another one failed but it was borrowed for troubleshooting, the trouble was
it was already ****ed so I was no better off.

Anyway, I thought I'd do some diagnostics on this POS PC I built from crap
so the chink **** can run through setting-up linux and getting a beautiful
desktop.
Whilst I was perusing the shyte available on Hiren's I came across HDD
Regenerator v1.41.
It's running now but unfortunately the ****ed drive is 80GB, it's in by 15GB
so far.

Has anyone ever used HDD Regenerator or a similar utility?
Any success?
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what does it have to do with me???

PS: My desktop is already beautiful!
http://www.aquila-deus.no-ip.org/opera.png
 
* * * y O R r . s H e P H e R d . a Q U i L A . d E u S . ( d 2 0 0 5 x x ,
d 2 0 0 4 x x , d 2 0 0 3 x x , d 2 0 0 2 x x ), <[email protected]>,
the festered, short-lived gooseberry, and employee who assembles sausage
skins, purged:
what does it have to do with me???
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Because you're going to provide me with simple to follow instructions for
firstly installing linux and then follow that up with getting my desktop set
up as beautifully as yours.

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For my own part, I have never had a thought which I could not set down
in words with even more distinctness than that with which I conceived
it. There is, however, a class of fancies of exquisite delicacy which
are not thoughts, and to which as yet I have found it absolutely
impossible to adapt to language. These fancies arise in the soul, alas
how rarely. Only at epochs of most intense tranquillity, when the
bodily and mental health are in perfection. And at those weird points
of time, where the confines of the waking world blend with the world of
dreams. And so I captured this fancy, where all that we see, or seem,
is but a dream within a dream.
 
Lord said:
A little while back I had my first ever hard drive failure.
Well, that's not strictly true, I RMA'd a drive once which was acting
funny; Another one failed but it was borrowed for troubleshooting,
the trouble was it was already ****ed so I was no better off.

Anyway, I thought I'd do some diagnostics on this POS PC I built from
crap so the chink **** can run through setting-up linux and getting a
beautiful desktop.
Whilst I was perusing the shyte available on Hiren's I came across HDD
Regenerator v1.41.
It's running now but unfortunately the ****ed drive is 80GB, it's in
by 15GB so far.

Has anyone ever used HDD Regenerator or a similar utility?
Any success?
Click to expand...

I have never been succesfull on refurbishing a ****ed drive and I have had a
few. They stay unreliable pieces of shit, in my opinion. I used Spinrite. In
the end it did n't make no difference. I only have one 40 gig with a SMART
read error for storage purposes, running, in an older machine, for two years
now and it's still working. The stories about Spinrites pros and cons are
very contrastive. I did n't have any result with Spinrite. HDD regenerator
I've never used.
http://www.kickstartnews.com/reviews/utilities/spinrite_v6.html
http://grcsucks.com/spinrite.htm
HTH
 
the double-dyed said:
I have never been succesfull on refurbishing a ****ed drive and I
have had a few. They stay unreliable pieces of shit, in my opinion. I
used Spinrite. In the end it did n't make no difference. I only have
one 40 gig with a SMART read error for storage purposes, running, in
an older machine, for two years now and it's still working. The
stories about Spinrites pros and cons are very contrastive. I did n't
have any result with Spinrite. HDD regenerator I've never used.
http://www.kickstartnews.com/reviews/utilities/spinrite_v6.html
http://grcsucks.com/spinrite.htm
HTH
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Thanks, mate.
I'll dig out the last version of hiren's and give spinrite a go if this
other thing doesn't fix it.
Actually declan swan had a version of spinrite, I'll have a look for it
first. It could be anywhere, I'll do a search for "spin" across my two
terabytes. Maybe the other thing will be finished by the time the search
completes!

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For my own part, I have never had a thought which I could not set down
in words with even more distinctness than that with which I conceived
it. There is, however, a class of fancies of exquisite delicacy which
are not thoughts, and to which as yet I have found it absolutely
impossible to adapt to language. These fancies arise in the soul, alas
how rarely. Only at epochs of most intense tranquillity, when the
bodily and mental health are in perfection. And at those weird points
of time, where the confines of the waking world blend with the world of
dreams. And so I captured this fancy, where all that we see, or seem,
is but a dream within a dream.
 
Synapse said:
"* * * y O R r . s H e P H e R d . a Q U i L A . d E u S . ( d 2 0 0 5 x x ,
d 2 0 0 4 x x , d 2 0 0 3 x x , d 2 0 0 2 x x )" <[email protected]>
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What is all that transparency shit all about?

You have a lot to learn about aesthetics, usability, ergonomics and
productivity, you moron.
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and you just need a ****, go getting ****ed!
 
Lord said:
* * * y O R r . s H e P H e R d . a Q U i L A . d E u S . ( d 2 0 0 5 x x ,
d 2 0 0 4 x x , d 2 0 0 3 x x , d 2 0 0 2 x x ), <[email protected]>,
the festered, short-lived gooseberry, and employee who assembles sausage
skins, purged:


Because you're going to provide me with simple to follow instructions for
firstly installing linux and then follow that up with getting my desktop set
up as beautifully as yours.
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lol, just come to irc.freenode.net #archlinux

if you want the beautiful shadow and transparency stuff, you must have
any of nvidia's cards, because nvidia is the only one company that
provides official drivers for linux... xorg's current graphics accel
arch is too ****ing crap to do anything useful.

the simplest solution would be to install KDE, Amarok (iTunes-like),
Koffice (- viewer, don't expect too much), and my Adobe fonts converted
from Acrobat 7's otf. It looks even better than my hacked xfce 4.3, and
has remote desktop support, file sharing, built-in shadow and
transparency, and mac-style menubar. But it's not anything more
reliable than windows. When you run into trouble, the only fix is to
wipe out all of your kde settings (the system will remain fine).

however, after you spend days to get it to work, you will then find it
isn't useful at all. There is no photoshop, no real office, and no easy
way to setup big games like Doom 3 and UT 2004... just a good-looking
desktop
 
Aquila Deus said:
however, after you spend days to get it to work, you will then find it
isn't useful at all. There is no photoshop, no real office, and no easy
way to setup big games like Doom 3 and UT 2004... just a good-looking
desktop
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and what is the ****ing point of that?

ss.
 
Lord Gazwad of Grantham, <[email protected]>, the flyaway,
immaterial donkey humper, and employee responsible for the feeding of
cardboard into the machine that makes boxes, harried:
A little while back I had my first ever hard drive failure.
Well, that's not strictly true, I RMA'd a drive once which was acting
funny; Another one failed but it was borrowed for troubleshooting,
the trouble was it was already ****ed so I was no better off.

Anyway, I thought I'd do some diagnostics on this POS PC I built from
crap so the chink **** can run through setting-up linux and getting a
beautiful desktop.
Whilst I was perusing the shyte available on Hiren's I came across HDD
Regenerator v1.41.
It's running now but unfortunately the ****ed drive is 80GB, it's in
by 15GB so far.

Has anyone ever used HDD Regenerator or a similar utility?
Any success?
Click to expand...

Right then, you bunch of hairy-bollocked, bastards.
HDD regenerator managed to fix 17 bad sectors, all at the beginning of the
drive.
The drive still seemed to be playing up so I ran Spinrite for good measure.
I had partitioned off the first gig and hidden it, Spinrite choked on that
but managed to declare ****-all wrong with the second partition.
After having some ice-cream I realised the reason why the drive was being
recognised by some utilities but not by others may have been that it was set
as slave, not as master. That would also explain why it wasn't recognised
when I stuffed it in my backup server.
Why do ****ers phone when you're fiddling with fiddly things?
Jumper fixed and the server recognised the drive.
I copied some files to it, all but one file copied ok. Another try and the
same file was ****ing up. I repeated this a few times, was that file bad? I
copied it elsewhere, no problem!
I tried to copy the copy to the ****ed drive, still no go.
I decided it was a corrupt MFT and twatted the partitions from the
management console.
A new partition later and I have managed to copy crap back to the drive
without issue.
Hoo ****ing ra.
Nearly 24 hours worth of ****ing about to resurrect an 80GB drive. At least
I did it in a way that the data could have been recovered if there was
anything on it.

Anyone interested in 80GB of filth and a free drive for £60?

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Fricasseed horse flies and alligator offal seasoning aberrant with decayed
earwax balls and eel droppings extract, cooked in a splashing mug with a
slew of unpalatable morsels of shrimp and hide in putrid chef's snot, a side
of yam chips and a cup of moonshine.
 
Well _I_ could have told you all that, I know everything.

(...it was spyware, huh.)

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Lord Gazwad of Grantham, <[email protected]>, the flyaway,
immaterial donkey humper, and employee responsible for the feeding of
cardboard into the machine that makes boxes, harried:


Right then, you bunch of hairy-bollocked, bastards.
HDD regenerator managed to fix 17 bad sectors, all at the beginning
of the drive.
The drive still seemed to be playing up so I ran Spinrite for good
measure. I had partitioned off the first gig and hidden it, Spinrite
choked on that but managed to declare ****-all wrong with the second
partition.
After having some ice-cream I realised the reason why the drive was
being recognised by some utilities but not by others may have been
that it was set as slave, not as master. That would also explain why
it wasn't recognised when I stuffed it in my backup server.
Why do ****ers phone when you're fiddling with fiddly things?
Jumper fixed and the server recognised the drive.
I copied some files to it, all but one file copied ok. Another try
and the same file was ****ing up. I repeated this a few times, was
that file bad? I copied it elsewhere, no problem!
I tried to copy the copy to the ****ed drive, still no go.
I decided it was a corrupt MFT and twatted the partitions from the
management console.
A new partition later and I have managed to copy crap back to the
drive without issue.
Hoo ****ing ra.
Nearly 24 hours worth of ****ing about to resurrect an 80GB drive. At
least I did it in a way that the data could have been recovered if
there was anything on it.

Anyone interested in 80GB of filth and a free drive for £60?
Click to expand...

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|>Isn't spinrite just for SCSI drives?

Na.

"SpinRite provides complete interaction with IDE-interface ATA drives,
but it may also be used with any other type of drive — SCSI, USB,
1394/Firewire —" http://www.grc.com/srQ&A.htm



|>[email protected] wrote:
|>>
|>> |>A little while back I had my first ever hard drive failure.
|>> |>Well, that's not strictly true, I RMA'd a drive once which was acting funny;
|>> |>Another one failed but it was borrowed for troubleshooting, the trouble was
|>> |>it was already ****ed so I was no better off.
|>> |>
|>> |>Anyway, I thought I'd do some diagnostics on this POS PC I built from crap
|>> |>so the chink **** can run through setting-up linux and getting a beautiful
|>> |>desktop.
|>> |>Whilst I was perusing the shyte available on Hiren's I came across HDD
|>> |>Regenerator v1.41.
|>> |>It's running now but unfortunately the ****ed drive is 80GB, it's in by 15GB
|>> |>so far.
|>> |>
|>> |>Has anyone ever used HDD Regenerator or a similar utility?
|>> |>Any success?
|>>
|>> Spinrite is very good at recovering HD's.
|>>
|>> Back in the days of running a BBS when 80meg drives cost a bundle;
|>> spinrite was the standard for bad drives with a lot of success
|>> stories.
|>>
|>> I did a quick scan of Hiren's 7.0 when I got it, and didn't see
|>> spinrite, it is on 6.0. Of course you'll do the right thing and
|>> compensate Gibson if it works I'm sure...

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