[clue-tech] Failing drive [was Re: virtualization]

[Maxwell Spangler]

On Thu, 2010-07-29 at 22:20 -0600, Maxwell Spangler wrote:

> > > I have a failed/failing SATA disk over here.  Can you recommend any
> > > tools I can run on it to test it in depth and or try to recover data?
> 
> Whoops!  That was supposed to be a private message to Master Shawn
> because I know he's got hard drive kung fu over there.
> 
> I'm going to run SeaTools on it now just to confirm it's got problems.
> Then I'm going to try to get to the data, but only for a little bit.
> 
> I just wish I could do a more exploring on the drive to figure out what
> the problem is.  This is less than 90 days old and just went kaput from
> either a little bump or a bad power connection.. 

SeaTools repaired two bad sectors and now my system is bootable again
with a loss of what, 512 bytes?

Let this be a reminder to me, and you, to stop this weekend and backup
your data.  You never know when two little sectors could bring your
whole system down.

Thanks, Seagate. Great way to start the weekend!

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Maxwell Spangler
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