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rpmurray · 07-26-2010, 09:15 AM

It doesn't mean the drive has failed, just that some sectors on the drive cannot be read (which is almost as bad). As far as I know, the Snap OS does not appear to try to map around bad sectors, so essentially your data is now hosed. From what I've read here over the years, you have two options:

1) If you can still log in, you could try setting the option to fix fatal errors and see if it does anything. This is a long shot and I've found that it generally doesn't work most of the time.

2) If you really need the data, then you'll need to send it to a data recovery place and have them recover it for you.

There are some folks on this forum that have suggested using SpinRite to see if it can fix the problem, but this has never worked for me. SpinRite is useful to test drives before installing them to see if they have any bad sectors.

If you've got a backup of your data; get a new drive, possibly run it through SpinRite to test for bad sectors, and then install it and restore your data. Once a drive starts getting read and/or write errors, it's useless in a Snap because the OS is not designed to handle them; to the OS it's like running into a brick wall.

07-26-2010, 09:15 AM	#2
rpmurray Cooling Savant Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Tennessee Posts: 157	Re: Snap 1000 Error - no access It doesn't mean the drive has failed, just that some sectors on the drive cannot be read (which is almost as bad). As far as I know, the Snap OS does not appear to try to map around bad sectors, so essentially your data is now hosed. From what I've read here over the years, you have two options: 1) If you can still log in, you could try setting the option to fix fatal errors and see if it does anything. This is a long shot and I've found that it generally doesn't work most of the time. 2) If you really need the data, then you'll need to send it to a data recovery place and have them recover it for you. There are some folks on this forum that have suggested using SpinRite to see if it can fix the problem, but this has never worked for me. SpinRite is useful to test drives before installing them to see if they have any bad sectors. If you've got a backup of your data; get a new drive, possibly run it through SpinRite to test for bad sectors, and then install it and restore your data. Once a drive starts getting read and/or write errors, it's useless in a Snap because the OS is not designed to handle them; to the OS it's like running into a brick wall.