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Originally Posted by blue68f100
Glad everything is up and running again. The 1st block is the MBR, The following sectors is where the OS resides.
I would make a copy of the boot tracks for future needs. On old HD you never know when they will fail. It's just cheap insurance. I have my image files burned over to several CD's. I wanted extra copies just in case one goes bad.
SpinRite is a very good HD tool, the reason I recommend it to users having problems. Some think it's to expensive and never purchase it. I use it on all of my HD before I put them into service and every 6-9 months to keep track of what kind of shape the drives are in. On old HD's it can refresh the media, which in turn will give you longer service. One thing I have noticed on ALL HD's is if it hangs in the 4-6% area your in trouble. This is apparently where all of the drive sector data is stored. So Problems Here mean Major problems.
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I am going to have to work on that, at least archive the section of the drive that may require replacement in a mishap.
Has anyone tried using Winimage to do that work?
I don't think Digital Dolly is that strong an application. It works, but it could use some development. For example, the errors it was throwing when unable to copy HDD to HDD, should have been trapped and options given. It was just dumb errors.
However, the right thing to do would be for Adaptec to release what we need for their old products they don't care to support anymore.
I have to say, if they don't they would become an ineligible vendor in my opinion. I have pretty strict standards in that regard. Companies abandoning their customers is not a valid option. I avoid buying anything from such vendors.