Vince Teachout wrote:
> Peter Cushing wrote:
>> I would take it that the hard disk contents were toast and reformat it.
>> I probably wouldn't even trust the hard disk again after a failure as
>> they are so cheap.
>
> Eh... I'm not quite that desperate, yet. I HAVE already made a complete
> backup of everything, just in case, and plan to make a DD image this
> weekend. I'm pretty sure though that Spinrite fixed the problem, and
> marked the sectors unusable. Disks are cheap, but it's the days of time
> required to move everything over to a new hard drive that I would
> dread. :-)
Days of time? Ghosting a drive might take a few minutes setup/cleanup
and then a number of hours of doing something else (sleeping?)
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