![]() If something has happened to the drive to make it unreadable then Spinrite is not likely to be of any help. All Spinrite will do is tell the sector is bad and mark it in the relocation table. Now servo tracks (alignment tracks) are on a single platter and everything has to line up very precisely. It was only good during the days of MFM/RLL drives which could be low level formatted and servo tracks were on each platter. Spinrite will not work well on a ATA or SATA drive. If the computer or drive is under warranty,also check with the manufacturer, but DONT listen to phone support to reformat and reload the computer! DUH. Also check the power supply or MAYBE you just turned off the power strip/surge protector (you DO use one right lol?) OR, as the article says get an external USB drive case so you can try and connect the drive (if it was internal) to another computer.Īlso check with your local PC retailer (prob not a big box store they may charge too much), find a smaller shop who may have more expertise in this area instead of a 19 yr old kid. Check your USB connection also (they can be fishy) or yet another USB port on the computer or another computer. If its external, try unplugging it and letting it cool down overnight and see if you can get it working again. Don't panic (yet)! I thought an external USB drive had failed also. Perhaps this article can be of some help. Every month I take it home and do the back up so at least I have a month old backup no matter what happens.ĬDs/DVDs are good too, but just one is not sufficient backup because they go bad sometimes (and they're way too small) which is why I use the removable drive. Then I take a portable passport USB drive and use super duper to back up to that and then I take the drive to work. I'm not a professional, but I have a iMac with a 1TB hard drive with a Time machine backup (on a 2TB external drive) and a super duper backup mirror to another 1TB external drive. And in fact for purposes of a fire or natural disaster, one of your backups should be offsite. The lesson is to back up in multiple places. They then replace the parts of your drive with donor drives in order to recover the data. They take the disk to a clean room and carefully dissassemble it. It typically costs in the thousands of dollars. If that doesn't work, there are companies who try to recover data from disks. if you do get it booted again, copy all your data off to at least two locations. Did your primary storage fail too? A backup isn't a backup if it is the only place where something is stored?Īssuming you ONLY have your images on your backup drive, have you tried a program called SpinRite from grc.com? I've never had to do such a recovery, but they tell stories about being able to make a disk bootable again if it doesn't have an actual hardware fault. ![]()
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