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Recovering files from a disk with a bad CRC is apparently a lot easier than prying them off a disk whose partition table has flown the coop.
Still, it's not all a bed of roses.
I'm using a tool called "MultiState Recovery 4," published by Enplase Research, that I downloaded and installed at no charge via the auspices of an occasionally interesting site called giveawayoftheday.com. The program is fairly intuitive, but has a maddening tendency to at times stop recovering files (although at least it has the good sense to show you where).
The question remains of what to do with the offending disk. One alternative is to put it in storage, CRC error and all, so that if at some future time I become aware of a file that should have been on the disk that, for some reason, went unrecovered (I had just downloaded about 12 GB from thegreatcourses.com, all of which I think I recovered), I can dig it out and try to recover it on an individual basis.
Another alternative is to bite the bullet and reformat the disk, but I don't know enough about the occurrence of CRC errors to determine if—having experienced one such episode—whether the disk is now any more susceptible to a repeat performance.
Galina and I went downtown to put an ad in The Sun for a garage sale this weekend, which we plan to hold at a storage facility (which takes care of having to worry about folks driving up and down the driveway, which is long and curvy and one car wide). Then we enjoyed a late breakfast and did a little grocery shopping. While at the store, I got an email asking if I was available for work. In the end, a huge job dropped into the inbox early this afternoon, and I'm happy to report I've put a significant dent in it.
But for sure quite a number of tasks are quickly filling up my dance card.
Cheers...
Still, it's not all a bed of roses.
I'm using a tool called "MultiState Recovery 4," published by Enplase Research, that I downloaded and installed at no charge via the auspices of an occasionally interesting site called giveawayoftheday.com. The program is fairly intuitive, but has a maddening tendency to at times stop recovering files (although at least it has the good sense to show you where).
The question remains of what to do with the offending disk. One alternative is to put it in storage, CRC error and all, so that if at some future time I become aware of a file that should have been on the disk that, for some reason, went unrecovered (I had just downloaded about 12 GB from thegreatcourses.com, all of which I think I recovered), I can dig it out and try to recover it on an individual basis.
Another alternative is to bite the bullet and reformat the disk, but I don't know enough about the occurrence of CRC errors to determine if—having experienced one such episode—whether the disk is now any more susceptible to a repeat performance.
Galina and I went downtown to put an ad in The Sun for a garage sale this weekend, which we plan to hold at a storage facility (which takes care of having to worry about folks driving up and down the driveway, which is long and curvy and one car wide). Then we enjoyed a late breakfast and did a little grocery shopping. While at the store, I got an email asking if I was available for work. In the end, a huge job dropped into the inbox early this afternoon, and I'm happy to report I've put a significant dent in it.
But for sure quite a number of tasks are quickly filling up my dance card.
Cheers...
