[TriLUG] OT: Laptop Hard Drive

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Thu, 17 Nov 2011, Derek Linz wrote:

> I prefer hddregen to spinrite...even on a badly failing 
> drive, it/they can be invaluable if applied delicately. 
> Regenerating enough sectors/the right sectors

I had a flakey PS produce 1000's of reallocated sectors in 
about 15mins before I noticed what was going on. I assume 
these are sectors marked bad and the disk has moved the data 
to spare sectors. I don't know any way of getting these 
back.

hddregen seems to say that it can revive bad sectors. 
Do you think it will get my reallocated sectors back?

Thanks Joe
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