[Herefordshire] Re: SpinRite

[Andrew Hodgson]

Hi,
 
I have upgraded to the latest Spinrite and did manage to recover files
of a 2002 dead Linux drive which my server used to reside on before it
went bang as a result of a storm and me being silly enough to put the
machine in with no surge protector!!!
 
I have since used it and charged for data recovery (mainly from floppy
disks), but wouldn't want to be without it now.
 
I am sure there are others locally who will have copies.
 
Andrew. 
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[mailto:herefordshire-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of
EdwardFW at aol.com
Sent: 25 February 2005 15:15
To: herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: [Herefordshire] Re: SpinRite


Julian

Re Spinrite, I don't know of an alternative. 
Four licences for a small firm is excessive
Some time ago I did the decent thing and bought a licence for our
business and one for myself (for the old version) since we have two (and
a half) sites. 
When I get further into Linux I may upgrade my copy if I do I'll let you
know.
Does your firm know other small local IT firms that use Linux such that
you could join together and share the burden for one company to get the
licences. This firm could then kindly test drives for the rest of you.
Or could one of you at Q-par Angus buy a copy of SpinRite for personal
use and buy suspect drives from your firm then sell them back fixed?
An alternative would be to spend a little on extra hard drives and RAID
etc. mirroring / back-up for important boxes.

Regards, Edward 
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