[Pc_Support] File Recovery Windows 2000

[Phil Barnett]

On Wednesday 21 September 2005 10:52 pm, BBBB wrote:
> > On 21 Sep 2005 at 8:38, ozz at ozz.is-a-geek.net wrote:
> > ......
> >
> > > SpinRite.
> > >
> > > http://www.grc.com
> >
> > SpinRite is great (own it and highly recommend it), but it does a
> > physical recovery.  But this sounds like a partition recovery
> > problem.
> >
> > Try TestDisk ( http://www.cgsecurity.org/index.html?testdisk.html )
> > for partition recovery.  I think this is the one I used a long while
> > back to recover a damaged partition  (NTFS even) on an external
> > firewire drive.
> >
> > --am
>
> What is the difference here?
> Do you mean that SpinRite digs out the files, while TestDisk repairs the
> partition and allows the files to show again?

Spinrite reads each track on the disk, does a low level format of the track, 
writes the data inverted, reads the data inverted, if it passes, it writes 
the data right side up and moves to the next track.

Essentially, it does a low level format and a high level format with the data 
in place.

When it encounters a bad sector, it inserts one of the engineering spares and 
puts the data onto it. Most drives these days every track has a spare sector.

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