Re: [PLUG] Hard Drive warranty RMA

[Michael Leone <turgon@mike-leone.com>]

I always try SpinRite, from GRC. It can work wonders to recover a
drive. Not sure how well it handles the filesystem in question, tho..

It's not Linux, but as they say, use the best tool for the job. ;-)


On 7/26/09, brent timothy saner <brent.saner@gmail.com> wrote:
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> James Barrett wrote:
>> You could also use badblocks(8) to overwrite the data on the disk.
>> using 'badblocks -w /dev/sdX' will write a set of patterns to every
>> block of the disk before reading them back and checking their
>> consistency.  This will effectively destroy every speck of data on the
>> drive.
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> ah that's right! i totally forgot you could do that. thanks james!
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> golly, i bet we could take over the world together if we applied ourselves.
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