[Cialug] SpinRite!

[Todd Walton]

Yes!  SpinRite has rescued yet another hard drive for me.  I had a 250
GB disk that suffered some damage on a power loss.  (Shoulda had a
UPS...)

I couldn't boot into the operating system, so I booted a live cd and
ran fsck.  fsck found lots of filesystem errors and fixed them.
Unfortunately, a few libs were toast and a bunch of stuff wouldn't
run.  So I decided to reinstall.  But the Fedora 10 installer errored
out when it got to writing partitions on disk.

SpinRite to the rescue.  It took all night to run, but it finished,
and now the installer works without a complaint.  Best $80 I ever
spent.

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Todd