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In message <BANLkTimRA==j01=AtdDaRMNk5SOU8So5uw@mail.gmail.com>, grarpamp write
s:
>I've got a disk that I'd like to excercise in order to
>see if it will reallocate marginal reads when
>written to. Normally I'd just zero the thing,
>destroy and toss it. But I feel like playing more.
>Because the data is still semi valuable, I want to
>read and write back every block of the disk.
>Any tools that will do this?

Recoverdisk ?

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