Does your hard drive have bad sectors? Are you getting errors? Lost your data? All of these issues are a nightmare these days when we rely so heavily on our hard drives to store our data.
I was getting error reports on my Windows XP PC so I ran chkdsk and found that I had some bad sectors on the disk. I searched all over the Internet and finally came across a program called SpinRite, by Security Guru Steve Gibson. I watched a few videos about SpinRite, then paid the $90 for the program. The price is a little high, but I needed the data on my hard drive. SpinRite ran for almost 24 hours but when it was done, my drive was working well. I move the data off the drive and installed a new drive, but I'm glad I had SpinRite. If you have any data recovery needs or just need to maintain your drive check out SpinRite.
SpinRite can do several things for you. It can maintain your drive if you use it regularly. Without getting too technical here, SpinRite works by reading each byte of data and re-writing it, and then making sure it was re-written properly. Apparently Windows will mark a sector, or block of data bad if only one part of that block is bad, even if the rest of it is still good. SpinRite can recover your lost data most of the time because it will look at every byte of data on the drive individually. That's the layman's way of looking at it anyway.
All you do is run SpinRite and it will help you make a boot disk. Once that is done you simply boot the machine off of that CD. SpinRite will ask you a few questions and off it goes.
Although SpinRite is pricey, I still recommend it because your data is worth so much. You can check out SpinRite at the link below.
I was getting error reports on my Windows XP PC so I ran chkdsk and found that I had some bad sectors on the disk. I searched all over the Internet and finally came across a program called SpinRite, by Security Guru Steve Gibson. I watched a few videos about SpinRite, then paid the $90 for the program. The price is a little high, but I needed the data on my hard drive. SpinRite ran for almost 24 hours but when it was done, my drive was working well. I move the data off the drive and installed a new drive, but I'm glad I had SpinRite. If you have any data recovery needs or just need to maintain your drive check out SpinRite.
SpinRite can do several things for you. It can maintain your drive if you use it regularly. Without getting too technical here, SpinRite works by reading each byte of data and re-writing it, and then making sure it was re-written properly. Apparently Windows will mark a sector, or block of data bad if only one part of that block is bad, even if the rest of it is still good. SpinRite can recover your lost data most of the time because it will look at every byte of data on the drive individually. That's the layman's way of looking at it anyway.
All you do is run SpinRite and it will help you make a boot disk. Once that is done you simply boot the machine off of that CD. SpinRite will ask you a few questions and off it goes.
Although SpinRite is pricey, I still recommend it because your data is worth so much. You can check out SpinRite at the link below.