<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">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.<div> <br><div><div>On Apr 13, 2010, at 10:18 AM, Andrew S. Zbikowski wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; ">You didn't mention what happens when you try to access the drive from Windows. Is Windows unable to see the drive?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>If the drive is showing signs of bad sectors a tool such as SpinRite (<a href="http://www.grc.com/">www.grc.com</a>) 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.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>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.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br clear="all"></span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>