Spinrite manual

We reinstalled the drive in the original server. It ran perfectly, the research assistant who had created the required files copied them off the drive and that was that. Nice job SpinRite 6. The drive was still running fine as we went to publication with this review two weeks after the incident. Leon's review includes shows some great screen shots of SpinRite in operation.

You may read the entire SpinRite 6. Thanks Don! Search forums. Install the app. Thread starter Jofred Start date Jan 5, Watchers 6. JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly. You should upgrade or use an alternative browser.

Jofred New member. Jan 5, 1 0. Barry Wallis said:. To add to PHolder 's excellent post, the implication of this is that many newer machines which will be documented in this thread that only boot via UEFI and not legacy boot, will not be able to run SpinRite or ReadSpeed until Steve incorporates UEFI support into the applications expected in SpinRite 7.

Microsoft Surface Books 1 - 3 do not support legacy boot. Click to expand Barry Wallis Magician in Training. Sep 16, Oceanside, CA barrythecook. The version of SpinRite after 6. It will be a paid upgrade unless you have purchased a recent copy of 6,1. DanR Dan. Sep 17, SpinRite is a single program file that offers completely different services when it is run under Windows or DOS.

It should first be run under Windows to choose and create some form of bootable media. Then, when the media prepared by the Windows-side of SpinRite is booted, the FreeDOS operating system included within SpinRite will boot, and it will, in turn, start SpinRite to begin performing data recovery, maintenance, and repair.

I lost my copy of SpinRite. How can I get another? You may visit the customer service page of our web site at any time to enter your purchase transaction number. This will re-display a copy of your original online receipt containing a fresh software download link you may use to retrieve the latest version of our software. You may do this whenever you need to. If you have also lost your original purchase receipt you may write to us at to have us look up your previous purchase and provide your transaction code.

With your request, please provide the eMail address you used at the time of your purchase so that we may locate your previous purchase record. I have a slow Internet connection. How large is SpinRite?

SpinRite is a single Kbyte downloadable file, so it can be easily and quickly obtained through even the slowest Internet connections. However, that is SpinRite's maximum speed and many things can cause it to run slower and, in some cases, much slower. If SpinRite hits areas of the drive that require attention, it will pause to take as much time as required to recover data, verify the region, and cause the drive to replace any damage with new spare sectors.

So 2 gigabytes per minute is a best-case speed with a modern drive, high-performance pin cabling, and motherboard or controller supporting Ultra DMA transfers. No software of any sort can truly low-level format today's modern drives.

The ability to low-level format hard drives was lost back in the early 's when disc surfaces began incorporating factory written "embedded servo data". If you have a very old drive that can truly be low-level reformatted, SpinRite v5. But this is only possible on very old non-servo based MFM and RLL drives with capacities up to a few hundred megabytes. We have never created nor offered a demo version of SpinRite because people would just download and use the demo whenever they needed SpinRite's help.

Unlike "productivity" software such as a word processor or appointment manager which are used all the time, SpinRite is typically needed only from time to time. But when it's needed it's really needed and it's really useful! So if a demo of SpinRite were available, people would just use the demo whenever they were in trouble. Non-paid use would not represent a fair exchange of value, and it would prevent us from continuing to move SpinRite forward and supporting this web site's many other valuable but free software and services.

We stand behind SpinRite one hundred percent, and we offer a day money-back satisfaction guarantee. No questions asked. Given the special nature of the product, we feel that this represents the best all around solution for everyone. Status This thread has been Locked and is not open to further replies. The original thread starter may use the Report button to request it be reopened but anyone else with a similar issue should start a New Thread.

Watch our Welcome Guide to learn how to use this site. Joined Feb 13, Messages I've just purchased a copy of SpinRite hopefully not too late for my gig hdd and being somewhat of a neophyte at all this computer stuff, I've come to the first roadblock.

Having made a ISO and placing on a CD-R and also purchasing a jump drive and following instructions on the first image that pops up when starting the software I think I've downloaded to the jumpdrive. Now when I try to get it to start nothing happens, zip, nada. I'm looking for a SpinRite guru who can walk me through this simple process.

JohnWill Retired Moderator. Joined Oct 19, Messages , Well, most of us don't have the manual, and we don't know what "instructions" you followed. What exactly is the purpose of putting it on the JumpDrive? Why can't you boot the CD and run it? I'm not sure why it won't boot from the CD. My CD drive is first in line to boot from. I'm wondering if somehow I might have not made the ISO image correctly or somehow it did not copy to cd correctly. If you've used SpinRite it seems to be a straight forward "click the box" and its done process.

Well, the obvious question is, what was the exact procedure you used to make the CD from the ISO file? Joined Sep 12, Messages 20,