[plug] harddrive becomes read-only

[Arie Hol]

On 7 Sep 2008 at 22:43, Gavin Chester wrote:

> 
> On Sun, 2008-09-07 at 15:46 +0800, Gavin Chester wrote:
> > On Sun, 2008-09-07 at 12:43 +0800, Kev wrote:
> > > SpinRite (http://www.grc.com/default.htm) is outstanding tool for 
> > > diagnosis, maintenance and data recovery.

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>  4 /dev/sg4 [3:1:1:0] Disk  FUJITSU  MAP3367NP        5605 UPS3P3602KSJ
> 34732MB
>  5 /dev/sg5 [3:1:2:0] Disk  SEAGATE  ST336607LW       0004 3JA0XVS8

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Fujitsu and Seagate should both have "free" utilities available for 
download from their respective web sites.

Depending on the model/s of your drive/s I may have some diagnostics 
utilities for both drives - but they are getting a bit old and may not 
suit your drives.

The download files are usually .exe files which will make boot floppies 
for you.

These utilities should run diagnostics on your drives without doing any 
damage to your data..

Note : 
1 - You may need to create "boot" disks to run these utilities.
2 - You may also need access to a "Windows" box to make these boot disks

Contact me off list if I can be of any help, I will have a look to see if 
I can find the utilities --- they are somewhere in the deep dark archives 
of  my old DOS collections.

HTH

Regards Arie
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