If I recall correctly, it made it up to about 43% through the scan and sector refresh, but after 43%, the drive totally failed ☹️
It wasn’t even an important system anyways, it was found in the trash or on the side of the road somewhere. Sorry, my late father had found it, so I can’t exactly ask where it came from.
But it was a fun curious project, just to see what, if anything, might happen with a good ole Spinrite.
Shit, it was shot with a shotgun, not like I had high hopes 😂🤣
That was ages ago, I wasn’t thinking to try recording anything back then. It was some piece of shit desktop, I wanna say it had a 40GB hard drive.
Whoever tossed the system must have been attempting to wipe out their data in the most redneck way possible, shotgun.
They shot the side of the computer case, which partly protected the drive from the shotgun pellets, but it was still basically a direct hit to the HDD.
TL;DR - Sorry, no video ☹️
Are you sure about that?
I’ve run Spinrite on a HDD that was literally shot with a shotgun.
I mean sure the drive crapped out halfway through the test, but shit, it was shot with a fucking shotgun!
Just spray some WD-40 in there, format it at half the capacity, and send it!
You got this 👍
Meanwhile, I made a custom version of Windows 3.11 that boots from a single floppy disk into RAM.
Gotta feed the fridge 👍