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Spin Rite

Discussion in 'General Open/Public Discussion' started by Ground Chuk, 23 Oct 2006.


  1. Ground Chuk

    Ground Chuk BANNED

    Anyone ever hear of the Gibson Research Corporation?

    This program is apparently rather nice, the Spin Rite 6. Cost's like 80-90 bucks, but is the ultimate Hard Drive monitor/recovery program out there. And it's like 190K in size. And works for multiple Operating Systems.

    http://www.grc.com/default.htm

    And read the stories.

    Making a boot disk (cd) from this can actually restore a hard crashed drive.

    Now, from what I've seen, it may take many hours to run (100 gig drive about 5 hours), but does quite a job.

    Apparently drives will hold a few sectors as "backups" so when some go bad, then they try to replace the good data on the "backup sectors". This Spin Rite backs up data on these extra sectors, and replaces the data that was corrupted. I think that is how it works.

    Anyone ever use Spin Rite?

    I've used a lot of Steve Gibson's free stuff, and it is cool. Just wondering if maybe this Spin Rite might be worth it, in the long run.
     
    Last edited: 23 Oct 2006
    Ground Chuk, 23 Oct 2006
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  2. Marsman

    Marsman

    I've been a fan of Steve's stuff since WAY back in the day - back when MFM and RLL drives were around and Steve did the impossible by writing a non-destructive low-level reformatter to change the interleave on-the-fly.

    SpinRite6 is fantastic - no better program for Hard drive recovery or maintainence - well worth getting. Have used it many times and all the testimonials on his page are well warranted. It's a great program.

    I regularly listen to "Security Now" hosted by former TechTV's Leo Laporte and Steve Gibson over at http://www.twit.tv
    His knowledge of computer security is truely impressive and he provides excellent insight into issues such as cryptography, the internet, and all things computer.

    Anything GRC produces is high quality excellence and I fully endorse all GRC products and Steve Gibson in general.
     
    Last edited: 24 Oct 2006
    Marsman, 24 Oct 2006
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  3. EvilSlayer

    EvilSlayer

    Ditto what Marsman says.

    Steve is a true White Hat in the computer/Internet realm.

    His site should be required reading for anyone who uses the Internet. It would be a much safer place if so.

    Spin Rite is a required utility for anyone who claims the appellation "Geek".

    And Mars... MFM, RLL? You date yourself my man. lol

    Ahhhh those were the days. You step up from a 5 to a 20 meg drive and think you will never fill it. ;)
     
    EvilSlayer, 24 Oct 2006
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  4. Marsman

    Marsman

    I'm afraid I date myself even worse than that - I'd been into computers for several years at that time. As far as my own personal computers, I loaded and saved my first programs on cassette tape! :lol: After that it was 5 1/2 and 8 inch floppies!

    And yes I remember my first 5 meg hard drive fondly - full height and weighing about 10 pounds and when I distinctly remember laughing at my friend who bought a 40 meg drive shortly after that, and mocking "what are you ever going to use 40 meg on - the OS won't even let you format over 32 meg - you'll have wasted 8 meg on nothing!"

    Now that Seagate expects to have a TERAbyte drive ready by the end of this year, I agree - How times have changed indeed! :rofl:
     
    Marsman, 24 Oct 2006
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