Damn computers

[revchris]

Friday, one of may profs started having hard drive problems. The "throw it out and get a new one" kind of problems. He then also told me that his grad students replaced the hard drive last in April, and it hasn't been backing up since then, but he hadn't gotten around to telling me.

What can you say? Some actions provide their own penalties.

I've spent the whole weekend with his drive plugged into my computer, trying to recover files. It's done two complete chkdsk loops (at ~14 hours each), and I've copied about a third of the files off of it. It's be faster if I could delete the known bad ones, as then each copy loop wouldn't have to fail every bad link, but I haven't found a way to do that yet.

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[smithphoenix.livejournal.com]

runtime.org/ might be of some use to you. I recently used it to recover a bunch of data off of a drive that I would normally have thrown out without recovering anything.

[revchris.livejournal.com]

I tried it. It scanned the whole drive, didn'f find a recoverable file system.

Hitachi's diags say SMART failure/bad device. I going to keep working at it and try to recover what I can.