What's the Point of Spinrite 6? in Security http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r16093501 en Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:59:31 EDT Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:59:31 EDT Re: What's the Point of Spinrite 6? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16099458 dave :
said by asdkjfaklsdjfaklsdfj :

What do you mean by align drives?
My answer was in a category that is colloquially referred to as 'joke'.

If you search with google, I'm sure you can find an explanation of the concept.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16099458 Mon, 15 May 2006 09:31:08 EDT Re: What's the Point of Spinrite 6? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16099240 caffeinator : I can't attest to spinrite 6, but i have version 5 that saved a couple drives from the dustbin.

One was a 12G drive that somehow had the foil seal on the sides scraped off by a messy drive bay..oops. Major dust contamination bummer. I resealed it, but the damage was done.

It was unusable for windows and chkdsk/scandisk couldn't fix it. It's now stable enough for *nix, although win32 still balks at the existing bad clusters that can't be fixed.

It's a good tool IMO, but it's not gonna fix everything.
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»[Info] Spinrite 6 Questions BEFORE purchase

edit: spelling

Cudni]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16098506 Mon, 15 May 2006 01:26:06 EDT Re: What's the Point of Spinrite 6? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16098499 anon : Also many times when I runned spinrite on a failinig drive (on level 5) it took anywhere from 5 hours to over a day to complete and during those times the drive is subjected to continuous use, as a result I was always worried that whatever failures our occuring, by useing spinrite they might be ampliffied (failures being hardware/motor failure).]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16098499 Mon, 15 May 2006 01:24:10 EDT Re: What's the Point of Spinrite 6? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16098489 anon : What do you mean by align drives? It does not defragment the drives nor change any file placement (unles there is unrecoverable error). I recall buying the software a while back but now looking back on it I am seeing it so far as a useless purchase. Any failure I had that I could not recover via chkdsk was a total head ramming against the platers failure (with the familiar click click click sound) or a total motor failure.
And no, Spinrite could not recover the "click click click" :) Failure.
I mean most of the times when my HD totally falied, even BIOS could not ID them so there was no use to run any utility since their presence was transparent to the system.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16098489 Mon, 15 May 2006 01:20:28 EDT Re: What's the Point of Spinrite 6? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16097980 dave : It's like Feng Shui - helps aligh your drives for maximum Qi.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16097980 Sun, 14 May 2006 23:19:12 EDT Re: What's the Point of Spinrite 6? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16096601 Tom Mc : I have personally never used Spinrite, and don't anticipate the need for it. However, I am aware of a number of people unable to use PGP's Whole Disk Encryption due to disk errors; with such errors not being resolved by Windows XP tools, and being subsequently resolved by use of Spinrite (and then being able to use the Whole Disk Encryption).]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16096601 Sun, 14 May 2006 19:11:34 EDT Re: What's the Point of Spinrite 6? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16094832 jp10558 : Spinrite is also used to text drives to make sure they are good. It is one of the most thourough testers I've seen.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16094832 Sun, 14 May 2006 12:59:22 EDT Re: What's the Point of Spinrite 6? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16093571 Cudni : Exactly when there are errors on th HD. Spinrite is superior to chkdsk in file and hd recovery. if you are desperate for the data on the failing HD then you use spinrite or similar recovery util.

Cudni
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