SpinRite Wanted Another 7500+ Hours (312+ Days)
SpinRite had been running over 330 hours (nearly 2 weeks) and said it needed another 7500+ hours (312+ days) to complete the job when I decided to, um, change course. As I mentioned earlier, the disk just contained a test Linux server. So, there wasn't anything critical on it and this exercise was one of curiosity. If you look at my screen shot from August 20 and then look at the screen shot from today above. You'll see that SpinRite has essentially not moved from the bad sector it has been working on for the last 10 days. So, I noted where it was, terminated the process (rebooted) and did the following: I changed the scan level from 2 to 1 (read scan only) and advanced the pointer to the 57% mark to get around the known bad area. An hour later, SpinRite had moved from that point to over 80% complete (with a lot of green R's noting more bad areas it found) and should be done within another hour or so.