Windows bombs it saying the disk is unreadable (I believe that was the error); I tried it on my girlfriends Vaio (vista) and her custom desktop (XP Pro) -- I no longer have a Windows desktop as I've had to repurpose it for my FreeBSD 8 server. On Apr 13, 2010, at 10:18 AM, Andrew S. Zbikowski wrote: > You didn't mention what happens when you try to access the drive from Windows. Is Windows unable to see the drive? > > If the drive is showing signs of bad sectors a tool such as SpinRite (www.grc.com) may be able to recover the data on those sectors and move it to a good sector. Costs you some money, but you don't have to learn how to use the tool, just run it and let it do it's work. > > ddrescue appears to attempt a similar operation, but instead of trying to recover data and remap bad sectors is just copies the data from one drive to another. Not a bad idea in case your attempts at data recovery make the situation worse. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20100413/b96b9461/attachment.htm