Questions tagged [spinrite]
SpinRite is a computer program for scanning hard disks data storage, recovering data from them and refreshing their surfaces.
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Why is Windows not booting (boot loop) after accepting a BitLocker PIN after having completed BIOS CMS work?
Occasionally one might need to boot into an application that requires CMS mode in BIOS to be enabled (like SpinRite.) Since most Windows modern installation are UEFI with Secure Boot, this requires ...
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Trying to boot to SpinRite and get InitDiskill WARNING: using suspect partition
Trying to run SpinRite 6 on an Acer Aspire z3760, an all-in-one.
First thing I tried was booting the machine to SpinRite image on a USB; the machine simply refused to boot from the USB, even when I ...
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What does "Empty Sector" mean in Spinrite?
While running Spinrite (from GRC.com), one of the screens shows a "Raw Data Snapshot". This usually shows data from hard drive sectors flash past as they are read or written.
On one drive in an HP ...
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SpinRite 6 "MBR Followed by EFI" Error
When I run SpinRite 6 on my Windows computer with a 3TB drive, it displays a red MBR Followed by EFI error next to the drive, with a message saying it should not be run unless the MBR is "fixed." ...
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OS X Hard drive recovery
I am trying to recover data from a bad Seagate 1TB hard drive in a 2010 iMac. One day the iMac wouldn't boot (stuck at gray screen on startup). I removed the hard drive from the iMac and connected it ...
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So I found and marked some bad clusters—now what?
I don't know exactly why, but hard drive failure happens to me quite often. This time around, three out of my eight drives failed almost at the same time (two HDDs and one SSD).
I still don't know ...
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What is the S.M.A.R.T. page?
I've just listened to Steve Gibson talk about his SpinRite software, on the Security Now podcast episode 336 (transscript).
At 33:20 he says:
I can show and do show on the SMART page that sectors ...
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Does SpinRite still prevent/predict crash failure in modern hard drives?
Yesterday I attended a presentation by Western Digital that discussed various innovations in rotating hard drive internals, including perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR), heat-assisted magnetic ...
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Does any Spinrite level intentionally result in data loss?
That is, are any of the operational levels designed in a way which writes over or otherwise destroys existing data on the disk? I looked around but couldn't find an answer to this question, and can't ...
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Adding a USB Device Driver to a SpinRite ISO Image
Has anyone successfully gotten a SpinRite ISO image to successfully see a USB device?
Steve Gibson, on his SpinRite FAQ page, says that you can add a USB device driver to a DOS boot diskette and ...
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SpinRite on USB drive
I had a laptop that one day stopped booting. I took the hard disk (WD, SATA, 320GB) out and tried it in a USB caddy and tried to connect it to my desktop PC. It behaves erratically, constantly ...
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Sony Vaio EB1E0E IDE Mode
I am trying to use SpinRite on my Sony Vaio EB1E0E, and for this I need to enable the IDE mode. However when I go to the advanced tab in the bios I only see the Vt-x enabling and disabling.
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~2,000,000 seek errors on SpinRite?
I ran a level 4 maintenance level on my hard drive with SpinRite. Everything was clean, but I checked the log and it said that it found ~2,000,000 seek errors. That's the only thing that SpinRite ...
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ECC Corrected, Realloc Events, Seek Errors, etc. in Spinrite 6
I am running SpinRite 6 on a dying hard drive. What do all these terms mean on the SMART Monitor screen?
ECC Corrected
Realloc Events
Seek Errors
Recal Retrires
Cabling Errors
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VMware : how to forward all errors to guest operating system
I'm trying to run SpinRite on a VMware machine. Everything is going well, but as the drive fails VMware always pops up a warning saying:
Operation on file "\\.\PhysicalDrive0" failed.
If the drive (...
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