SPINRITE and SATA drives - posted in Internal Hardware: In order to safely restore a deeply rootkit infected computer, I wanted to go the route Eraser - SPINRITE - OS reinstall.
SpinRite v6.0 achieves complete operating system independence by incorporating the FreeDOS operating system. This allows it to be used on any and all Intel/AMD PC systems. As you can see from the Windows screen image above, SpinRite 6.0 can create a bootable diskette or generate a standard, CD-R burnable ISO file to create a 'SpinRite boot CD. Press any key once you are done reading the SpinRite splash screen. Then choose 4 for maintenance. Then prepared to be really sad because your hard drive is 3TB and SpinRite 6 can’t handle drives larger then 2TB. There has been talk of SpinRite 7 which should fix this issue but for now I’m out of luck. So this is really a BOGO Today I.
Spinrite Version 6.1
Spinrite 6.1 Beta
Bad blocks that SpinRite 6.0 skips, maybe test case for 6.1
In the grc.spinrite forum, I posted a situation that I am having with a 2TB drive. I have 8 consecutive bad sectors (3,188,632,392 through 3,188,632,399 on a 2TB drive of 3,907,029,168 total sectors). My cloning software sees that these sectors are bad, but SpinRite does not. When I run SpinRite within a range to specifically target those bad sectors, for some reason SpinRite just keeps going to completion without starting up the dynastat process. Milton in the grc.spinrite forum suggested that it could be an issue of 'a drive of 4KB physical sectors masquerading as a...
SpinRite 6 speed vs. SpinRite 5 speed
My old PC is retired as a backup now, but I recently had to replace its HD, and decided to compare SpinRite 6's performance with what I had previously gotten with SpinRite 5. Platform: Intel AL440LX motherboard, 333GHz CPU, 320MB 66MHz RAM SpinRite 5 (level 5) / Western Digital 6.4GB 5400RPM HD / FAT32 --- 40 hours (0.16 GB/hour) SpinRite 6 (level 5) / Maxtor 80GB (76GB actual) 7200RPM HD / NTFS --- 6.5 hours (11.7 GB/hour) That's a pretty big speed increase. Some of its due to the faster HD, but I think it's mostly due to SpinRite 6. :) > Platform: Inte...
Spinrite 6 rel 1
Please correct me if I am wrong, but there has been no update to SR6 since release 1 in 2004, right? In article <gq3bhr$31dh$1@news.grc.com> nobody wrote: > Please correct me if I am wrong, but there has been no update to SR6 > since release 1 in 2004, right? Correct. -- Alan The Perpetual Puzzle of Nature < http://hermital.org/book/intro.htm > hermital wrote: > In article <gq3bhr$31dh$1@news.grc.com> nobody wrote: >> Please correct me if I am wrong, but there has been no update to SR6 >> since release 1 in 2004, right? > ...
Good Idea for spinrite 6.1
Hello, i read a lot for spinrite 6.0, noting spinrite 6,1 is still under development. ithought it would be a good way, to improve spinrite's diagnostics (not that tey are bad, they are the best available on the market) but still it is good idea in my eyes. I know how deep spinrite takes the idea of good diagnostics, reading the documwntation of spinrite the user's manual, user's manual addendum, the under the hood pdf files carefully and in detail, seeing how laws of magnetism, megnetodynamics and electromagnetism work in a hard drive, and how all this is used to ...
spinrite 6.1 Update in 2012?
Are we looking at an update this year? SATA drives are increasingly dropping legacy support Please. -- pdm [for the unabridged version, see peter mclinn's post above] > Are we looking at an update this year? SATA drives > are increasingly dropping legacy support Please. Yes we are. It's now the next major development project I will pursue. I'm at work on wrapping up the few pending things that need to get completed so that all their work and value isn't lost. Then it's on to SpinRite v6.1 as soon as possible. -- ______________________...
Can we have Spinrite 6.1 Please?
Steve if we could tear you away from your PDP8 for a moment we could really do with Spinrite 6.1 that will handle SATA drives please? On 4/23/2012 8:29 PM, Dakota wrote: > Steve if we could tear you away from your PDP8 for a moment we could > really do with Spinrite 6.1 that will handle SATA drives please? Direct queries and monetary re numeration are not effective means of altering Steve's behavior therefore: All questions about SpinRite should be put in the form of a puzzle. Hey Steve! Have you ever noticed that isochronous native command queuing always uses a re...
Good Idea for spinrite 6.1 #4
Hello, i read a lot for spinrite 6.0, noting spinrite 6,1 is still under development. ithought it would be a good way, to improve spinrite's diagnostics (not that tey are bad, they are the best available on the market) but still it is good idea in my eyes. I know how deep spinrite takes the idea of good diagnostics, reading the documwntation of spinrite the user's manual, user's manual addendum, the under the hood pdf files carefully and in detail, seeing how laws of magnetism, megnetodynamics and electromagnetism work in a hard drive, and how all this is used to ...
Good Idea for spinrite 6.1 #2
Hello, i read a lot for spinrite 6.0, noting spinrite 6,1 is still under development. ithought it would be a good way, to improve spinrite's diagnostics (not that tey are bad, they are the best available on the market) but still it is good idea in my eyes. I know how deep spinrite takes the idea of good diagnostics, reading the documwntation of spinrite the user's manual, user's manual addendum, the under the hood pdf files carefully and in detail, seeing how laws of magnetism, megnetodynamics and electromagnetism work in a hard drive, and how all this is used to ...
Spinrite 6.1 on KVM Virtual Machine
Dear Steve, It would be great if Spinrite was compatible with virtual machines. Thus the physical hardware would not need to be dedicated to only Spinrite operation. I'm offering to help test against Linux KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine). It is full virtualization, thus a good chance of success, as opposed to some of the other virtualization technologies. My geek-fu is strong, so I won't need much hand-holding ;) Cheers, Tyson -- tyson.hilmer.com [Star date 47351.99] Tyson transmitted: > It would be great if Spinrite was compatible with virtual mac...
Good Idea for spinrite 6.1 #3
Hello, i read a lot for spinrite 6.0, noting spinrite 6,1 is still under development. ithought it would be a good way, to improve spinrite's diagnostics (not that tey are bad, they are the best available on the market) but still it is good idea in my eyes. I know how deep spinrite takes the idea of good diagnostics, reading the documwntation of spinrite the user's manual, user's manual addendum, the under the hood pdf files carefully and in detail, seeing how laws of magnetism, megnetodynamics and electromagnetism work in a hard drive, and how all this is used to ...
Spinrite 6.1 Potential timely progress feedback ?
Hi all I have just joined this Newsgroup to try to find out what is happening to the terrific developments for SpinRite. I subscribe to Security Now in hope that I'd hear about the progress. But nothing in the past few months ! As we all know Steve's Brilliant Idea of SQRL has taken up a huge amount of his time. The NSA's dabbling in everybodies lives makes this not just important from a security point of view ( stopping the bad guys) but also important to the personal privacy and liberty of the whole world. However today I have now discovered that there is st...
NoScript 1.1.6.16 and 1.1.6.21
I received a popup for version 1.1.6.16 and updated. On the update page I was informed that 1.1.6.21 was the latest and was directed to the direct download page. Bob Vanderveen Anonymous Bob wrote: > I received a popup for version 1.1.6.16 and updated. On the update page I > was informed that 1.1.6.21 was the latest and was directed to the direct > download page. Now 1.1.6.22 http://noscript.net/getit#direct -- Dennis Windows, Linux and OS X are just device drivers for Firefox http://lists.thedatalist.com/pages/Firefox.htm 'Anonymous Bob' <no....
Spinrite 6?
Any Ideas when the next version of Spinrite is coming out. Fat 16/32 drives are pretty much obsolete, especially since companies have mostly gone to Windows 2000/XP on the desktop. Or is spinrite ever going to support NTFS'4 and 5' Wonderboy 'WonderBoy' <j95661@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:b7i1u9$1i5f$1@news.grc.com... > Any Ideas when the next version of Spinrite is coming out. Fat 16/32 drives > are pretty much obsolete, especially since companies have mostly gone to > Windows 2000/XP on the desktop. > > Or is spinrite ever go...
Spinrite 6
I would appreciate some advice to influence a decision on whether to buy Spinrite 6; I haven't used Spinrite before. Is there a recommended sequence to running Spinrite 6 for maintenance? For example, would it be level 1 first then either 3 or 4 to fix surface or error problems? In laymen's terms what is the difference between levels 3 and 4 and, what are the end results? Finally, would Spinrite be the solution when Partition Magic goes occasionally goes awry and states that all partitions are unreadable? . John John Boy wrote: > I would appreciate some advic...
In the grc.spinrite forum, I posted a situation that I am having with a 2TB drive. I have 8 consecutive bad sectors (3,188,632,392 through 3,188,632,399 on a 2TB drive of 3,907,029,168 total sectors). My cloning software sees that these sectors are bad, but SpinRite does not. When I run SpinRite within a range to specifically target those bad sectors, for some reason SpinRite just keeps going to completion without starting up the dynastat process. Milton in the grc.spinrite forum suggested that it could be an issue of 'a drive of 4KB physical sectors masquerading as a...
SpinRite 6 speed vs. SpinRite 5 speed
My old PC is retired as a backup now, but I recently had to replace its HD, and decided to compare SpinRite 6's performance with what I had previously gotten with SpinRite 5. Platform: Intel AL440LX motherboard, 333GHz CPU, 320MB 66MHz RAM SpinRite 5 (level 5) / Western Digital 6.4GB 5400RPM HD / FAT32 --- 40 hours (0.16 GB/hour) SpinRite 6 (level 5) / Maxtor 80GB (76GB actual) 7200RPM HD / NTFS --- 6.5 hours (11.7 GB/hour) That's a pretty big speed increase. Some of its due to the faster HD, but I think it's mostly due to SpinRite 6. :) > Platform: Inte...
Spinrite 6 rel 1
Please correct me if I am wrong, but there has been no update to SR6 since release 1 in 2004, right? In article <gq3bhr$31dh$1@news.grc.com> nobody wrote: > Please correct me if I am wrong, but there has been no update to SR6 > since release 1 in 2004, right? Correct. -- Alan The Perpetual Puzzle of Nature < http://hermital.org/book/intro.htm > hermital wrote: > In article <gq3bhr$31dh$1@news.grc.com> nobody wrote: >> Please correct me if I am wrong, but there has been no update to SR6 >> since release 1 in 2004, right? > ...
Good Idea for spinrite 6.1
Hello, i read a lot for spinrite 6.0, noting spinrite 6,1 is still under development. ithought it would be a good way, to improve spinrite's diagnostics (not that tey are bad, they are the best available on the market) but still it is good idea in my eyes. I know how deep spinrite takes the idea of good diagnostics, reading the documwntation of spinrite the user's manual, user's manual addendum, the under the hood pdf files carefully and in detail, seeing how laws of magnetism, megnetodynamics and electromagnetism work in a hard drive, and how all this is used to ...
spinrite 6.1 Update in 2012?
Are we looking at an update this year? SATA drives are increasingly dropping legacy support Please. -- pdm [for the unabridged version, see peter mclinn's post above] > Are we looking at an update this year? SATA drives > are increasingly dropping legacy support Please. Yes we are. It's now the next major development project I will pursue. I'm at work on wrapping up the few pending things that need to get completed so that all their work and value isn't lost. Then it's on to SpinRite v6.1 as soon as possible. -- ______________________...
Can we have Spinrite 6.1 Please?
Steve if we could tear you away from your PDP8 for a moment we could really do with Spinrite 6.1 that will handle SATA drives please? On 4/23/2012 8:29 PM, Dakota wrote: > Steve if we could tear you away from your PDP8 for a moment we could > really do with Spinrite 6.1 that will handle SATA drives please? Direct queries and monetary re numeration are not effective means of altering Steve's behavior therefore: All questions about SpinRite should be put in the form of a puzzle. Hey Steve! Have you ever noticed that isochronous native command queuing always uses a re...
Good Idea for spinrite 6.1 #4
Hello, i read a lot for spinrite 6.0, noting spinrite 6,1 is still under development. ithought it would be a good way, to improve spinrite's diagnostics (not that tey are bad, they are the best available on the market) but still it is good idea in my eyes. I know how deep spinrite takes the idea of good diagnostics, reading the documwntation of spinrite the user's manual, user's manual addendum, the under the hood pdf files carefully and in detail, seeing how laws of magnetism, megnetodynamics and electromagnetism work in a hard drive, and how all this is used to ...
Good Idea for spinrite 6.1 #2
Hello, i read a lot for spinrite 6.0, noting spinrite 6,1 is still under development. ithought it would be a good way, to improve spinrite's diagnostics (not that tey are bad, they are the best available on the market) but still it is good idea in my eyes. I know how deep spinrite takes the idea of good diagnostics, reading the documwntation of spinrite the user's manual, user's manual addendum, the under the hood pdf files carefully and in detail, seeing how laws of magnetism, megnetodynamics and electromagnetism work in a hard drive, and how all this is used to ...
Spinrite 6.1 on KVM Virtual Machine
Dear Steve, It would be great if Spinrite was compatible with virtual machines. Thus the physical hardware would not need to be dedicated to only Spinrite operation. I'm offering to help test against Linux KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine). It is full virtualization, thus a good chance of success, as opposed to some of the other virtualization technologies. My geek-fu is strong, so I won't need much hand-holding ;) Cheers, Tyson -- tyson.hilmer.com [Star date 47351.99] Tyson transmitted: > It would be great if Spinrite was compatible with virtual mac...
Good Idea for spinrite 6.1 #3
Hello, i read a lot for spinrite 6.0, noting spinrite 6,1 is still under development. ithought it would be a good way, to improve spinrite's diagnostics (not that tey are bad, they are the best available on the market) but still it is good idea in my eyes. I know how deep spinrite takes the idea of good diagnostics, reading the documwntation of spinrite the user's manual, user's manual addendum, the under the hood pdf files carefully and in detail, seeing how laws of magnetism, megnetodynamics and electromagnetism work in a hard drive, and how all this is used to ...
Spinrite 6.1 Potential timely progress feedback ?
Hi all I have just joined this Newsgroup to try to find out what is happening to the terrific developments for SpinRite. I subscribe to Security Now in hope that I'd hear about the progress. But nothing in the past few months ! As we all know Steve's Brilliant Idea of SQRL has taken up a huge amount of his time. The NSA's dabbling in everybodies lives makes this not just important from a security point of view ( stopping the bad guys) but also important to the personal privacy and liberty of the whole world. However today I have now discovered that there is st...
NoScript 1.1.6.16 and 1.1.6.21
I received a popup for version 1.1.6.16 and updated. On the update page I was informed that 1.1.6.21 was the latest and was directed to the direct download page. Bob Vanderveen Anonymous Bob wrote: > I received a popup for version 1.1.6.16 and updated. On the update page I > was informed that 1.1.6.21 was the latest and was directed to the direct > download page. Now 1.1.6.22 http://noscript.net/getit#direct -- Dennis Windows, Linux and OS X are just device drivers for Firefox http://lists.thedatalist.com/pages/Firefox.htm 'Anonymous Bob' <no....
Spinrite 6?
Any Ideas when the next version of Spinrite is coming out. Fat 16/32 drives are pretty much obsolete, especially since companies have mostly gone to Windows 2000/XP on the desktop. Or is spinrite ever going to support NTFS'4 and 5' Wonderboy 'WonderBoy' <j95661@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:b7i1u9$1i5f$1@news.grc.com... > Any Ideas when the next version of Spinrite is coming out. Fat 16/32 drives > are pretty much obsolete, especially since companies have mostly gone to > Windows 2000/XP on the desktop. > > Or is spinrite ever go...
Spinrite 6
I would appreciate some advice to influence a decision on whether to buy Spinrite 6; I haven't used Spinrite before. Is there a recommended sequence to running Spinrite 6 for maintenance? For example, would it be level 1 first then either 3 or 4 to fix surface or error problems? In laymen's terms what is the difference between levels 3 and 4 and, what are the end results? Finally, would Spinrite be the solution when Partition Magic goes occasionally goes awry and states that all partitions are unreadable? . John John Boy wrote: > I would appreciate some advic...