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by epcoa
754 days ago
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What does Spinrite actually do that is materially different than ddrescue? And the idea of repairing a failing disk and not just making an image is usually insane. > I should point out that SpinRite works below the file system structure This is not the flex that you seem to think it is. |
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Pretty sure Spinrite repairs/recovers, as you imply in your very next sentence (which I agree with, it's not a good idea to play with the filesystem of a failing disk.) I've never used it, though, so I may be wrong.
The real question for me is why would somebody pay for it over using ddrescue to get an image, and TestDisk/PhotoRec to do the filesystem recovery (on the image)? They're free and very good.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ddrescue
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TestDisk