As a grateful user of spinrite for many years, I can add my thumbs up to Dave's excellent description of its many capabilities. Its format-agnostic algorithms are quite powerful. Spinrite has saved my bacon more than once.
--Tom
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Prof. Thomas H. Lee
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Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-4070
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On 2/14/2025 12:44 AM, Dave_G0WBX via groups.io wrote:
Indeed Spinrite is a disc scanning and (where physically possible, that is, the disk is not beyond use due to physical damage to it's surface etc) an error recovery tool.? (I have my own licenced copies of 6.0 and now 6.1)
It is OS/data content/Format agnostic, it can happily scan a LIF format disk and do it's work, just as well as with any other OS's file system, as it only works on tracks and sectors.? The content and format of the actual data in the sectors is not important.? (I.e.? If the hardware can read it, it can be tested.)
