SpinRite

[CrazyTeeka]

I finally downloaded my updated copy of 6.1. I can't wait to get it setup on a USB boot drive and end the need for my having to change heads and clone drives ever again. Oh wait! I live in the real world.

Now that SR 6.1 rel 2 is out, I no longer need to use the RapidSpar or do head swaps or PCB swaps. In place data recovery is the way to go. Oh wait! I live in the real world too.

[lcoughey]

Don't you hate it when your eyes are open to the cult and then you feel left out?

[CrazyTeeka]

Don't you hate it when your eyes are open to the cult and then you feel left out?

I feel better when my eyes are open to cults. Don't feel left out.

[CrazyTeeka]

I wonder how good Steve's ram tester will be compared to passmark's ram tester?

[fzabkar]

I wonder how good Steve's ram tester will be compared to passmark's ram tester?

... or memtest86+

https://memtest.org/

[CrazyTeeka]

Doing a similar test to the one in Post #1, SpinRite 6.1 reports the drive is 100% healthy, but is it?
HDD Scan says something different...

[Joep]

HDD Scan says something different...

What do you mean exactly?

[CrazyTeeka]

By trying to reproduce the test done in original post which tested SR 6.0, I wanted to test SR 6.1 the same way, so I used HDDScan in-place of MHDD (because I still cannot get MHDD to see any drives), even thought the number of slow sectors is less for this drive, the drive isn't quite as healthy as SpinRite reports.

[CrazyTeeka]

In SR 6.1 release 3a there's a new NOREWRITE command-line, wonder what it's for?
Could it be something related to processing bad blocks on LEVEL 2?

[CrazyTeeka]

So SR cannot do data recovery now?

https://forums.grc.com/threads/drive-fa ... tion.1561/