On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:03:29 -0700, Darren New wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> I do recall using Spinrite in the past and it actually was able to
>> recover things that I thought were unrecoverable.
> 
> I had understood spinrite was for recovering/fixing/testing drives that
> had failures on them, like lost formatting or flakey electronics. I
> wouldn't think if the drive was working then you could get much out of
> it other than what you last wrote (without opening it up). I mean,
> pretty much, isn't that how a drive is *supposed* to work? Give you back
> reliably what you most recently wrote to a sector?

I don't know - I've not looked at it in 10 years.  Version 6 has been out 
for a while, but I haven't looked at it in depth.

Zeroing a drive could conceivably be seen as just not completely erasing 
the magnetic fields, though, so in that specific case, even the older 
version might find something.

Jim

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