From: Rod Speed on
za kAT wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:56:05 -0700, Daniel Prince wrote:
>
>> Power-On Hours: 363159
>
> Pooh says there it is.
>
> Turn the goddammmned thing off once in a while.

No need. I leave mine on all the time and none have any bad sectors.


From: Daniel Prince on
"David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote:

>That's not exactly what I meant. Sorry.
>
>The objective is to run a full, comprehensive, test of the drive such that you will know
>its condition and maybe fix bad sectors. At the end it will either indicate it is healthy
>or errors with an error message.

I do not see a full, comprehensive, test listed in any of the tests
available in SeaTools. Where do I find them?
--
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known many cats in my life and none of them were gourmets.
They were all gourmands!
From: za kAT on
On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:11:57 +1100, Rod Speed wrote:

> za kAT wrote:
>> On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:56:05 -0700, Daniel Prince wrote:
>>
>>> Power-On Hours: 363159
>>
>> Pooh says there it is.
>>
>> Turn the goddammmned thing off once in a while.
>
> No need. I leave mine on all the time and none have any bad sectors.

Pooh calls BS.

Lie on someone else time.

We use Big Ben.
--
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From: David H. Lipman on
From: "Daniel Prince" <neutrino1(a)ca.rr.com>

| "David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote:

>>That's not exactly what I meant. Sorry.

>>The objective is to run a full, comprehensive, test of the drive such that you will
>>know
>>its condition and maybe fix bad sectors. At the end it will either indicate it is
>>healthy
>>or errors with an error message.

| I do not see a full, comprehensive, test listed in any of the tests
| available in SeaTools. Where do I find them?


Since I don't have a SeaTools Boot Disk avaiable, I can't reference it. However there is
a short test anda longer more comprehensive test. Choose the latter.


--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp


From: Zaphod on
On Mar 21, 2:51 pm, Daniel Prince <neutri...(a)ca.rr.com> wrote:
> I have a Seagate 300 gig IDE drive (not SATA) that I have been using
> as a data drive.  Windows XP Home SP3 now says that the drive is
> unformatted.  When I run the Seagate DiscWizard program it says that
> sector 92 is unreadable.
>
> I have a lot of data on the drive that I have not backed up.  I
> suspect that most of the data is still there but just not accessible
> through Windows.  Is there a good freeware or shareware program that
> I can use to access my data?  Thank you in advance for all replies.
> --
> Whenever I hear or think of the song "Great green gobs of greasy
> grimey gopher guts" I imagine my cat saying; "That sounds REALLY,
> REALLY good.  I'll have some of that!"

As far as freeware goes, I have no idea of a solution, but Steve
Gibsons Spinrite can recover damaged sectors if they can be recovered
at all.