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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 ins
by epcoa 2y ago
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.
- pessimizer 2y ago> What does Spinrite actually do that is materially different than ddrescue? 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/Ddrescue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TestDisk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TestDisk