[mythtv-users] Dieing Hard Drive

[Nathan Ford]

Thx for the replies. I'll give that dd_rescue a try and see what I end up with.

--Nate

On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 21:54:07 -0800, Ian Forde <ian at duckland.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 21:24 -0800, Yan-Fa Li wrote:
> > Nathan,
> >
> > This tool costs money ($89), it's DOS based, but friends of mine have
> > recovered data from extremely screwed up drives:
> >
> > http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm
> >
> > It's still cheaper than a data recovery service.  You'll have to judge
> > for yourself how important your data is.
> 
> Being that back in the 80's I was a DOS and Windows guy, I can tell you
> that I used to *SWEAR* by Spinrite.  It is no joke, and ABSOLUTELY worth
> it.
> 
> I wish I'd known they were still around.  I could have saved myself an
> absolutely awful Tivo recovery a couple of years back. ;)
> 
>        -I
> 
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