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SpinRite v6.0The World’s Premier Magnetic Storage DataRecovery, Repair, and Maintenance Utility.Running SpinRiteTo obtain direct, low-level access to a system’s mass storage drives, SpinRite runs under MS-DOS, or any MS-DOS compatible operating system. The open-source FreeDOS operating system has been incorporated into SpinRite and it will be automatically booted from any boot diskette, compact disc, diskette image, or other bootable media configured by this program.
Thank you for the info. I should have been clearer about what I'm looking for.Software that's pay once, keep forever, that I can keep in my software toolbox. And has a graphical interface with realtime monitoring so I can look under the hood while the program is running. Yeah, probably 'I want what no one else does.' It really doesn't matter with current HDD prices so low., but I used to rerun SpinRite just to see if new bad sectors developed.
If not, I'd partition out the portion of the drive that was bad (usually the beginning of the drive) and create another partition with the remainder.I'm the first to advocate tossing or using for non-critical temp files if Crystaldiskinfo gives a yellow caution. If the caution is red, definitely toss the drive.Don't do this! I did it when HDDs were much more expensive and IMO it's not worth the risk now.I know there are detractors that say that SpinRite wasn't as effective as it claimed, but the closest I've come is HDD Regenerator and I haven't used it since (years ago) it failed where SpinRite succeeded, i.e. It did a full recovery of the data on the drive.
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There was talk by Gibson that an update to allow SpinRite to access 2TB drives and AHCI and 7.0 was in the works. Around this time there were reports that Gibson couldn't possibly update the program because be didn't create it as claimed. Whatever the truth is, SpinRite is long gone and unlikely to ever return.Edit: AFAIK, this was Gibson's last word on SpinRite:To answer your question directly, given the questions about the development of SpinRite and Gibson's silence on the matter of the update for 6+ years, I'd rather not bring the subject up to him as it may well be a sore spot. Spinrite is considered as dangerous by data recovery experts (do a search on for instance).
It does not recover one single byte as it is proceeding, and its claims of “repairing” bad sectors are dubious at best (i.e. It does nothing more than the drive's own firmware routines when attempting to overwrite a potentially damaged sector – either the sector can be written to and is thus removed from the “pending” list, or it can't and then it gets reallocated, i.e. Replaced by a sector from the “spare” area while its contents get lost in the process).For testing purposes I would recommend HD Sentinel: constantly checks the SMART status of all connected drives, issues warnings (visual or audible) whenever there's a new issue on either of them, or if temperature goes too high, keeps logs over time, also allows to perform a variety of manual surface scans (read only / write only / read + write + read.
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It also has a “disk repair” option which does a read scan but forces the reallocation of any bad sector encountered, this may be the closest to what you're looking for, but each option has its specific purpose which is well explained in the description field).@lordsmurf. The best disc recovery is payware or freeware.For HDD recovery, Stellar Phoenix or Ontrack.Those tools don't serve quite the same purpose. There are cloning / imaging / extracting softwares, which attempt to transfer as much data as possible from one device to another, and there are analysis / recovery softwares, which thoroughly analyse the data structure and attempt to make sense of a corrupted file system. Stellar Phoenix and Ontrack Easy Recovery are full-blown data recovery softwares, which fall in the second category. The one I would recommend in that category is R-Studio – highly efficient for its relatively moderate price, and constantly improving. Recuva is not as powerful but is still excellent for a freeware (sometimes it performs better than other commercial alternatives). But it is not recommended to directly analyse a defective storage device with such a software: its condition can worsen at each access attempt, while not a single byte is actually recovered (= transfered to a healthy device) during the analysis step, which typically lasts several hours on a large capacity HDD (for instance, about 7-8 hours for the complete scan of a healthy 4TB HDD).
There is also a very interesting tool named TestDisk, an OpenSource software that continues to be actively developed and that is very effective for the situations / problems covered.I used spinrite several times in the past and it was a very good tool,but 4 years ago I had a disk crash and in the occasion I tested several tools spinrite included also commercial ones but was with this tool, testdisk that I was able to recovery all information from the damaged disk. However it took almost a week to squeeze all the information to the last bit. TestDisk is aimed at fixing logical issues, like lost / reformatted partitions. It has an option to create an image file of a storage volume, which is highly recommended in case of physical issues, but it's not optimized to deal with damaged devices, like ddrescue or HDDSuperClone. However, TestDisk can open a raw image volume created by either of those dedicated tools: on a Windows system, either by right-clicking on the image file, choosing “Open with”, and looking for the TestDisk executable, or by typing a command from the command prompt (see below); another option is to mount the image file with a third-party tool, like OSFMount. Code: 'X:path to TestDisktestdisk.exe' 'X:path to the image filename of the image file.dd' The companion program Photorec is designed to perform a “raw” file search and extraction, for cases where the metadata information has been completely lost.
I was just responding to a post in another forum about SpinRite and it seems it may not be completely dead as I came across Gibson's new blog and his post from April 18, 2019:He says he busy with his pet project, SQRL (Secure, Quick, Reliable, Login) and will eventually get around updating SpinRite to 6.1 (actually 7.0).' Long time SpinRite fans are pretty much furious with me for allowing SpinRite to remain untouched and un-updated for 15 years.
Believe me I really really really do get that. And I truly cannot wait to be able to return to work on SpinRite. But as you will see once you become familiar with SQRL, it really does solve the problem of using secrets (passwords) and usernames or email, to sign-in to websites.' 'Once SQRL has been officially released I will immediately be returning to work on v6.1 of SpinRite. The best true apology I can offer is not to call the next version v7.0 an ask for an upgrade fee, but to instead call it v6.1 and make it a free upgrade for all v6.0 owners even for those who purchased v6.0 15 years ago in 2004 when it was finished and released.'
'I plan to post updates here on my status and on what’s going on, not only about SQRL but also about SpinRite v6.1 and anything else that I think needs saying.'