some people might scoff, but I've had good success with spinrite.
It might take some time, but it will
a) recover the sector, or
b) get the drive's firmware to mark that sector as bad, so that other disk recovery utilities don't fall down that tarpit.
if you don't want to cough up the dough ahead of time I'm sure you can find a working copy somewhere. But I've used it on dieing drives and gotten them hobbling along for enough time to get the data off.
-Terry
-----
"so listen up boy, or pornography starring your mother will be the second worst thing to happen to you today"
TF2: Spy
It might take some time, but it will
a) recover the sector, or
b) get the drive's firmware to mark that sector as bad, so that other disk recovery utilities don't fall down that tarpit.
if you don't want to cough up the dough ahead of time I'm sure you can find a working copy somewhere. But I've used it on dieing drives and gotten them hobbling along for enough time to get the data off.
-Terry
-----
"so listen up boy, or pornography starring your mother will be the second worst thing to happen to you today"
TF2: Spy