Showing its age

June 21, 2008 · Filed Under quick notes 

For years I’ve depended on Steve Gibson’s Spinrite for data recovery on dying hard drives. In the past year I’ve seen increasing instances of outright lockups and time estimates of hundreds and thousands of hours.

I don’t know enough about the internal workings of a hard drive to understand to understand what is happening, but something has changes. It’s time to look for something else.

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