Say you've got 2 HDD's with potential problems, bad sectors, just generally ****ed.

What recovery software would you recommend - not to repair lost files but to repair the HDD itself.

Thanks.

I wouldn't.

If they are playing up like that then would you really risk your data on them?

iirc, if it's truly going, piggy-back the files off it before it goes.

if we're talking physical failures, it's an expensive business, so just buy new ones

I use this http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm very good indeed.

download maxtors hard disk utli and run the checks. If they fail. Bin it.

thanks for the replies i'll try the above 2 applications.

personally I would try to copy the information then take a large hammer to the drives so I could never use them again.

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Are these the ones that you've replaced with the new ones from your other thread? I'd agree with what everyone else has said and bin them if there's no data you need to get off them - HDDs are so cheap these days that soldiering on with a dodgy old one is asking for trouble...

personally I would try to copy the information then take a large hammer to the drives so I could never use them again.

I had to destroy some old HDDs at work. First tried the hammer approach, which was surprisingly ineffective as the although the case was damaged, I later found out the disks inside were still OK. Then tried driving my car over them in true Clarkson stylee, which also didn't work. Best bet is to unscrew the case and bend the disks with a pair of pliers. Then nobody's even going to try and get the data off them...

no, different disks. just wondering about doing raid 0 with 4 discs instead of 2.