Copying A Disk

[Pete Holsberg]

Jason Crain has written on 7/12/2008 8:35 PM:
> Pete Holsberg wrote:
>   
>> ddrescue returned immediately with 0 bytes recovered/restored/rescue.
>>
>> The interesting thing is that Spinrite, probably via the BIOS, can see and
>> access the drive, and read up to the first 21.5%, while neither Windows
>> nor Linux can access the drive at all
>>     
>
> So what happens with SpinRite?  Does it ever finish executing or 
> recovering errors?  If the emergency recovery mode doesn't work, you 
> might try running it on level 4 for a full disk scan and leave it 
> running overnight.
>   

I used level 2. It got to that 21.5% point and never beyond. I quit when 
it said it had 583 hours to go!

Someone sent me the "under the hood" file for SR 3.1. It does NOT use 
the BIOS; it talks directly to the controller!!