Re: [Thinkpad] File-recovery programs [was: problems with C:

Thanks Tony, I remember some of that controversy around Steve Gibson. But I'm just looking to restore files not "maintain my HD", do you have any opinion on SpinRite's ability to do that?

Thanks!
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>On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:09:38 -0700, you wrote:
>
>> David Perry is right! Spinrite is great! I have been an owner since the
>> first disc in about 1993... and I don't understand why I forgot it...
>> Current version 6.0 handles all files you can find on a Thinkpad. The
>> version for repair shops is expensive, but the $90 for personal use is
>money
>> well spent
>
>Spinrite WAS great in 1993 when we used disk controllers connected to MFM
>drives and it could actually detect, locate and recover bad sectors. But
>now with IDE drives and embedded controllers, the software is IMO a load
>of overhyped nonsense which is unable to achieve anything very much more
>than a surface scan by CHKDSK etc. The one good thing I can say about
>Spinrite is that John Navas hates it :-)
>
>http://groups.google.com/group/comp.dcom.xdsl/msg/9aeee32323c2978e?hl=en&safe=o
>ff&th=579303492c81c2b8,25&rnum=8
>
>Steve Gibson uses the same type of FUD marketing with his Shields-Up:
>
>http://cable-dsl.home.att.net/netbios.htm#ShieldsUp
>
>Tony
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