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July 16th 06, 11:31 PM
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Testing with Spinrite, very slow spot!
Running Spinrite 5 on a 40 GB IBM harddrive, I'm testing at level 5, the most complete
level. Overnight, in about 10 hours Spinrite tested 86% of the partition it's testing. But it's now taken about 20 hours to test the next 1/10 of 1%. 20 hours later it's still at the 86.1% level. I've tried changing the level, to level 4 and then to level 3, but with not noticiable change in it's speed of testing. It must be on a bad spot but it's clear if it's going to take another month to get through this spot. Does anyone familiar with Spinrite have a suggestion for me? I don't think I can just stop the testing and just skip this bad spot, but is that possible? jc 
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July 17th 06, 01:33 AM
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Testing with Spinrite, very slow spot!
jbclem wrote:
Running Spinrite 5 on a 40 GB IBM harddrive, I'm testing at level 5, the most complete level. Overnight, in about 10 hours Spinrite tested 86% of the partition it's testing. But it's now taken about 20 hours to test the next 1/10 of 1%. 20 hours later it's still at the 86.1% level. I've tried changing the level, to level 4 and then to level 3, but with not noticiable change in it's speed of testing. It must be on a bad spot but it's clear if it's going to take another month to get through this spot. Does anyone familiar with Spinrite have a suggestion for me? Toss it in the bin, its always been snake oil. I don't think I can just stop the testing and just skip this bad spot, but is that possible? Its finding lots of them.
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July 17th 06, 01:49 AM
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Testing with Spinrite, very slow spot!
"jbclem" wrote in message
Running Spinrite 5 on a 40 GB IBM harddrive, I'm testing at level 5, the most complete level. Overnight, in about 10 hours Spinrite tested 86% of the partition it's testing. But it's now taken about 20 hours to test the next 1/10 of 1%. 20 hours later it's still at the 86.1% level. I've tried changing the level, to level 4 and then to level 3, but with not noticiable change in it's speed of testing. It must be on a bad spot but it's clear if it's going to take another month to get through this spot. Does anyone familiar with Spinrite have a suggestion for me? I don't think I can just stop the testing and just skip this bad spot, but is that possible? You think it will still go on after you pull the plug from the wall socket. yeh? jc
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July 18th 06, 06:00 AM
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Testing with Spinrite, very slow spot!
Well I don't use spinrite, but some operations on HDD are very time
consuming, for example selfscan procedure on HDDs can take up to 1 week if there are bad surfaces. That's why it is recomended to hook up the HDD on seperate PSU -- Alan Kakareka Data Recovery Service 786-253-8286 cell http://www.247recovery.com -- "jbclem" wrote in message ... Running Spinrite 5 on a 40 GB IBM harddrive, I'm testing at level 5, the most complete level. Overnight, in about 10 hours Spinrite tested 86% of the partition it's testing. But it's now taken about 20 hours to test the next 1/10 of 1%. 20 hours later it's still at the 86.1% level. I've tried changing the level, to level 4 and then to level 3, but with not noticiable change in it's speed of testing. It must be on a bad spot but it's clear if it's going to take another month to get through this spot. Does anyone familiar with Spinrite have a suggestion for me? I don't think I can just stop the testing and just skip this bad spot, but is that possible? jc
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#5
July 18th 06, 09:41 AM
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Testing with Spinrite, very slow spot!
Rod Speed wrote:
snip : : Toss it in the bin, its always been snake oil. More pearls of wisdom from the resident troll and village idiot. LOL! j.
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July 18th 06, 09:54 AM
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Testing with Spinrite, very slow spot!
Previously jack wrote:
Rod Speed wrote: snip : : Toss it in the bin, its always been snake oil. More pearls of wisdom from the resident troll and village idiot. LOL! Well, in MFM and RLL (original) times, SpinRite actually did better than other testers. Today it is a bit different. Arno
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#7
July 18th 06, 01:09 PM
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Testing with Spinrite, very slow spot!
"Alan Kakareka" wrote in message
Well I don't use spinrite, but some operations on HDD are very time consuming, for example selfscan procedure on HDDs can take up to 1 week if there are bad surfaces. That's why it is recomended to hook up the HDD on seperate PSU Ahh, logic. What would one do without it. -- Alan Kakareka Data Recovery Service 786-253-8286 cell http://www.247recovery.com [snip totally wrecked quoting by topposting idiot]
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