Take it to the bank if you must.īut I swear to you on a stack of vintage floppies. And the disk no longer hangs up the system.
It does indeed trigger the firmware to reformat the sector. You need to find out the name of the damaged file and replace it.Īnd by the way this is only good for a couple of sectors, if you got more than, say 3 or 4, your disk likely has other issues and may rapidly degrade at any time.Ĭlick to expand.Yup! That it sure does. HDD regen is the functional equivalent of performing the regular manufacturer's zero-test, but only on a few sectors and not the whole disk. Test it and see for yourself.Ī huge disservice to you this silent data corruption is. Yup! The drive will no longer get hung up on that sector/file. HDD regen has been shown to pull data from other areas of the HDD to randomly fill in the file and make it look ok again. If HDD regen "rebuilds" a sector belonging to a data file, like mp3, pdf, jpg, or other static document. And everyones happy, you, the computer, the customer.
It just gets rewritten and updated by windows again as a matter of course, thus you don't really see the problem. It may be that the repaired sector belongs to a temp or log file in windows or some other un-used area of the disk. It is important to know what file the repaired sector belongs to. And windows no longer gets hung-up on that sector. HDD regen and spinrite both trigger the firmware to re-format the failing sector. Since my generation was never trust anybody over 21.
I don't know maybe that means I am stupid. I will leave out the lol this time since some here think it is immature, although I am not that, I have 5 grand kids and two great grandkids. I have never had data worthy enough of recovering. For someone who really needs to recover data this would be worth the price. I guess the question would be, how long does the drive last after running Spinrite? Like I said it is not cheap like your top end AV's and if you have nasties on those bad sectors which a lot of malware uses today, Bad sectors to hide, that would be recovered as well. He has improved it and at least has not abandoned it over the years like so many you know. I would highly suggest you look at the video before posting ok? Spinrite is not the same as it was along time AGO. So how many actually watched the video? raise your hands please? Steve explains how drive manufactures are suppose to be able to allocate bad sectors to good ones but don't always.