Ted Roche wrote:
> On 10/31/07, Vince Teachout <teachv At taconic .DO.T net> wrote:
>
>
>> I had some hard drive sectors go bad on me, and (seem to have)
>> successfully recovered them with spinrite.
>>
>
> SpinRite rocks.
>
> However, a hard drive has spare sectors built into it, and will
> silently catch failing sectors and reallocate them to the spare space
> until it runs out of space. You're probably facing a drive likely to
> continue to fail, perhaps slowly, perhaps catastrophically.
>
Hmm, that's 2 votes for a new HD. I've already done step one. (backups)
It might not actually be failing - it's less then 2 years old, and there
was some heavy duty power failures that night, so something might have
gotten dings. I'll start to actively monitor the drive (with the
spinrite tools) and at the first sign of any additional failure I'll
start the HD replacement.
In the meantime, I was going to use Linux DD to image, but noticed you
mentioned PartImage. Any particular reason, or just experience?
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