[plug] harddrive becomes read-only

[Daniel Pearson]

www.ultimatebootcd.com has it all

Arie Hol wrote:
> 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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