I use Sprinrite on USB drives all the time.  It's slower, of course, but it works. 
 While it's very possible that the sort of damage is something Spinrite can't fix, 
it's also possible that it's something it CAN fix; only way to find out is to try.

Otherwise, I totally agree.







On Tuesday, April 15, 2008 at 11:52 am, C K wrote:

>Spinrite won't run on a USB drive.  It will have to be taken out of the enclosure 

>and mounted into a desktop system for Spinrite to work at low level.  This is the 

>best way to recover and work with a drive anyway.  Most likely however, the damage 

>to the drive isn't something Spinrite is designed to fix/recover anyway if it's 
just 

>corruption/FS damage.    IME, the enclosure interface has either failed or scrambled 

>the drive (as a lot of chipsets in these units are known to do), if the drive is 

>physically OK, or the drive was powered down/disconnected before it was finished 

>writing to disk..

>

>It's the biggest reason we don't ever count on an external USB/Firewire drive for 

>reliable storage.  Either way, I have learned that it is best to work with recovery 

>efforts and repair while there is no operating system loaded and running.  Windows 

>utilities can work well in some instances, but you can also do more damage/corruption 

>in other instances if the encloser interface is defective.. 

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