 dvd536as Mr. Pink as they comePremium
join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ
kudos:4 | [Info] Spinrite 6 Questions BEFORE purchase heres the story:
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I have this 80gb hard drive that has my music collection on it and started getting crc errors when any disk access was made to it then started having entire directory is unreadable errors. so i ran Encase on it and after it finished it got sector 32 to 15536 could not be read errors. now the message i get on boot is secondary slave hard disk fail. press F1 to continue. my interest in spinrite is only to recover this drive. does anyone know if you can get a refund of the purchase price (its $89.00) if you've used another utility on the drive before spinrite? I know they have a 30 day policy that has "any reason" you arent happy within 30 days you can get a refund. since spinrite has been around for years its the last option i want to try before giving up on the drive. has anyone here tried or know anyone thats tried to get a refund using the reason 'software was unable to recover the drive'.
there isnt a demo of this software is why im asking.
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Thanks for any input you can give me on this.
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 CudniLa Merma - VigiladoPremium,MVM
join:2003-12-20
Someshire
kudos:13 | from
»www.grc.com/sr/faq.htm
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If for ANY REASON you are unhappy with your ownership of SpinRite, we will immediately refund your purchase price. No questions asked. ...."
i'm sure you've seen the above. Seems/sounds unequivical 
Cudni
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 H2OuUp2Happy to be herePremium
join:2002-03-15
Oklahoma City, OK | reply to dvd536
Spinrite 6 worked for me. What I thought was lost, was found.
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dvd536as Mr. Pink as they comePremium
join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ
kudos:4 | reply to Cudni
said by Cudni:from » www.grc.com/sr/faq.htm"... If for ANY REASON you are unhappy with your ownership of SpinRite, we will immediately refund your purchase price. No questions asked. ...." i'm sure you've seen the above. Seems/sounds unequivical Cudni I saw that but then again ive seen the word unlimited used and many cases it doesn't always mean what you think. guess ill be smart and use my credit card. hopefully itll fix my hdd and i wont have to worry about their policies. Thank you for the input.
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Worth the purchase price for one time alone. Saved my ass repeatedly............and allowed me to bill for it!!
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dvd536as Mr. Pink as they comePremium
join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ
kudos:4 | said by Cyber2lz:Worth the purchase price for one time alone. Saved my ass repeatedly............and allowed me to bill for it!! UPDATE: I purchased it today and it doesn't see the dead hdd(the bios sees it but not spinrite). anyone have this problem and have a work-around?
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H2OuUp2Happy to be herePremium
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Oklahoma City, OK Reviews:
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Contact the author, you may need to download Spinrite 5.0 (it's free for 6.0 users).
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SpinRite can run on any PC compatible system with a 32-bit Intel or AMD processor and a color screen. The previous SpinRite v5.0 is available to v6.0 owners who need to run SpinRite on older 16-bit 8086/80286 systems and/or monochrome screens.
SpinRite is self-contained, including its own bootable FreeDOS operating system. It can be used on any operating system and any file system. This means it can run on drives formatted with Windows XP's NTFS and all other older FAT formats (in addition to all Linux, Novell, and all other file systems.) It can be used to pre-qualify and certify unformatted hard drives before their first use. Drives on non-PC platforms, such as Apple Macintosh or TiVo, may be temporarily relocated to a PC motherboard for data recovery, maintenance and repair by SpinRite.
SpinRite provides complete interaction with IDE-interface PATA (parallel ATA) and SATA (Serial ATA) drives, and it can also be used with any other type of drive — SCSI, USB, 1394/Firewire — that can be made visible to DOS through the addition of controller BIOS or add-on DOS drivers. To obtain the best performance, IDE drives can be temporarily removed from their external USB or Firewire cases and attached directly to the PC motherboard.
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jp10558Premium
join:2005-06-24
Willseyville, NY | reply to dvd536
said by dvd536:said by Cyber2lz:Worth the purchase price for one time alone. Saved my ass repeatedly............and allowed me to bill for it!! UPDATE: I purchased it today and it doesn't see the dead hdd(the bios sees it but not spinrite). anyone have this problem and have a work-around? IME, anytime the bios saw the drive, spinrite would - unless it was a RAID setup, in which case, you had to remove the drives singularily from the RAID to run spinrite, then put them back together.
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dvd536as Mr. Pink as they comePremium
join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ
kudos:4 | reply to H2OuUp2
System is a 1.33ghz tbird with a ATI AIW 9800. its old but not that old. since i can get v5 for free(the cost of a cd blank) its worth a try. im desparate. but not to spend hundreds or thousands for a recovery company(its only my mp3 drive)
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H2OuUp2Happy to be herePremium
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Oklahoma City, OK | reply to H2OuUp2
Check this site out. I thought it was interesting.
»www.deadharddrive.com/
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dvd536as Mr. Pink as they comePremium
join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ
kudos:4 | Unfortunately my drive spins up but thats about it. after a few mails to spinrite tech support their conclusion was its a lost cause and suggested some data recovery companies. not worth the price just for mp3s. guess ill just chuck the drive.
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 timcuthBraves FanPremium
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Pelham, AL
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| Yes, if the BIOS can't see the drive, there's not much chance of any software seeing it, no matter how low-level the software is. 
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dvd536as Mr. Pink as they comePremium
join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ
kudos:4 | said by timcuth:Yes, if the BIOS can't see the drive, there's not much chance of any software seeing it, no matter how low-level the software is. Tim Well how do these data recovery companies do it then. i assume it involves a cleanroom and removing the platters etc. . .
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