My friend's 120-gig hard drive died the other day, taking 2 years worth of recorded jam sessions, tax files, and other important data along with it. I've been using SpinRite 6 on it, and it's the freakin' ULTIMATE - if you don't believe me, watch this. The only problem is there's 2900 hours remaining and I don't have to revive EVERY SINGLE SECTOR of the disk, only certain files in certain directories.

SO!

Do any of you fine fabulous farkers know of any progs similar to SpinRite that will allow me to revive ONLY the specific files I care about?

I'm not good at fixin things, only breakin em.

mac or windows?

PC.

Can be Linux or whatever, since it requires a bootdisk.

If there's that much data, I'd send him to a professional DRS.

I wouldn't want to be personaly liable for permanently losing 2 years worth of data.

That might end up being the case, if I can't find a "specific file" retriever... after 3 days, it's at 0.6%.

you might want to teach him how to back things up too : :afro:

That's just the thing. He'd just started burning CDs.

It's my sincere belief that he created a butterfly effect - if he hadn't started backing things up, everything would be fine.

exactly. backups tempt the Koala-headed Dark Gods of Unfortunate Paradox.

Oh well shit..... that expalins it then!