Hardware/Windows question

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Jay R. Ashworth (Sun, 9 Oct 2005 17:18:41 -0400):
[...]
> > It's possible to try rewriting the MBR, but I'd advise against it.  If
> > it's really that section of disk that's bad, if it fails it will not
> > boot again, period.  Best off backing up what you can and replacing
> > the drive.
>
> If that's crazy problematic, though, you might grab Spinrite 6 (which
> is only about $70, I think) and run it against the drive on Level 5.
>
> I've had Spinrite recover drives that just would not work at all; it
> will just keep reading until it gets the sector, on it's highest
> setting.  I once ran it to recover an un-backed up ST512 10MB drive on
> a PC-XT.  It took *10 days*.  (Yes, I put it on a UPS :-)
[...]

It sounds like a modern version of Howie's PIGHEAD, which was published
in SmallTalk 1.1 way back when.  :-)

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