[wplug] Hard drive recovery

[Jonathan Billings]

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 03:00:34PM -0400, Andrew Fisk wrote:
> Did you try SpinRite from grc.com -- it does some pretty amazing stuff  
> and I have had some good sucess with it -- as long as the drive still  
> spins and the drive can be seen by the bios it's worth a try -- it  
> will run from a floppy or a CD and dosn't care how the drive was  
> formatted.  If the drive is really screwed up it might take a while to  
> run and it's only $89.00!

Spinrite can be run from a CD, but you have to have windows to create
that image, so the cost of it is really $89 + windows license.  It
might be possible to run under wine, though.

-- 
Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>