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Need suggestions for good Hard Drive repair tools
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MEPIS Enthusiast   Joined: Wed Jul 12, 2006 5:54 am Posts: 9172 Location: Tulsa, Oklahoma U.S.A. Has thanked: 2711 times Have thanks: 574 times 
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 Re: Need suggestions for good Hard Drive repair toolsThat's the reason for using the manufacturer's tools for a thorough diagnosis and fix. Their tools will save a lot of hard disk replacements.
For a simple LLF the zero-wipe is all that's needed. You end up with a clean hard disk 'down to the metal' as they say. Which always gives a better foundation to build on. I should mention that a modern IDE has ongoing statistical information that it uses to mark a bad sector so as not to use it again. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_forma ... hard_disks
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MEPIS Guide   Joined: Wed Jul 12, 2006 4:30 pm Posts: 1243 Location: Flinthills of Kansas, USA Has thanked: 183 times Have thanks: 112 times
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Re: Need suggestions for good Hard Drive repair tools Thank you everyone for the helpful replies. I ended up following JimCs' suggestions mostly and found most of it included on UBCD; unfortunatly neither drive was salvagable. Thanks again, Jerry
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