Mastodawn

Any SMART disk experts? I have a failing external USB drive (spinning rust kind) that I'm trying to get the data off. It has quite a lot of bad sectors that fail the CRC check. The read is going very slowly due to the retries on bad sectors and I'm currently estimating 1-2 weeks to read the whole thing.

Is there a way to make this go faster, such as tuning the number of retries so it gives up faster on the bad sectors?

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James Hubbard 4d ago

@vaurora you might try SpinRite. It supposedly will do a low level read and potentially get the drive to state where you can read it. I've had some luck in the past with it.
https://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm

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IrishMASMS

@vaurora @jameshubbard no, just no.

Spin rite is quackery
https://www.disktuna.com/and-now-im-done-with-steve-gibson-and-spinrite/

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