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Just to give an opposite anecdote on that, I had a failed (IDE) hard drive several years ago that the usual tools couldn't fix but SpinRite got it going again..

• PreInternet01 4y ago
  Good for you. `ddrescue` or a vendor-specific tool would have been equally effective, yet a lot cheaper. It's quite well-known that SpinRite had no special access to vendor-proprietary IDE commands or anything, and thus... did nothing.
  • jdlshore 4y ago
    Successfully selling an expensive product is not fraud. If it worked, it wasn’t “doing nothing,” even if there was no secret sauce.
  • userbinator 4y ago
    SpinRite in its later versions basically is ddrescue from what I've read.