[Cialug] SpinRite!

[joshstrobl at hush.ai]

had that happen to me once, but that was back in the day when I 
still used my old Inspiron 1100 with an amazing 28gb hard drive and 
ran the crawling XP. Didn't have anything really on it besides a 
few pictures so I didn't really care much for it.
I got smart after I bought my new Toshiba and got a surge 
protector, I advice you get one ;)

On Sat, 14 Nov 2009 10:02:07 -0600 Todd Walton <tdwalton at gmail.com> 
wrote:
>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.
>
>--
>Todd
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