[BBLISA] software hard disk recovery

[Brian O'Neill]

Daniel Feenberg wrote:
> The website gives no indication of what spinrite does. Does it just keep 
> trying sector reads longer than usual? That (and marking those sectors 
> as bad) was plenty usefull when it was sold to owners of broken IBM AT 
> computers 25 years ago. That wouldn't seem to be very usefull nowadays. 
> Can it reconstruct the partition table or do anything else relevant to 
> an ntfs or ext3 filesystem on a SATA drive?

It is basically a sector-rereader and remapper that has a good rate of 
success. It does not do filesystem reconstruction at all.

It DOES work on SATA disks. I presume it works on SAS as well - any 
drive that can be seen by the BIOS I would guess would work.

I'm not saying it is necessarily the best for any particular job though.

-Brian