[wplug] Hard drive recovery

Andrew Fisk andy at spitcomp.com
Wed Jul 16 16:19:50 EDT 2008


You can create the image using wine -- it uses freeDOS as an os --  
which avoids that whole windows thing, and while you might not want to  
muck up your owm machine you must know some poor soul with Windows and  
CD burner.

Thanks

Andy
Spitfire Computer Services
Suite 19
2301 Duss Ave.
Ambridge, PA 15003
Phone (412) 749-0162
fax: (602) 476-8868
andy at spitcomp.com
www.spitcomp.com



On Jul 16, 2008, at Wednesday, July 16, 20083:38 PM, Jonathan Billings  
wrote:

> 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.
>
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> Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>
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