SpinRite is a computer software program for scanning magnetic data storage devices such as hard disks, recovering data from them and refreshing their surfaces. It is proprietary and commercial software written by Steve Gibson of Gibson Research Corporation. The first version was released in 1988. Version 6, still 'current' as of July 2010, was released in 2004[1]. SpinRite may be run from a bootable floppy disk, USB flash drive or CD-ROM on a PC-compatible computer, independent of the operating system installed on the host computer.
SpinRite tests the data surfaces of read-write magnetic disks including IDE, SATA, USB, floppy, ZIP and others. It analyzes their contents and is claimed to be able to refresh magnetic disk surfaces to allow them to operate more reliably.
SpinRite tests the data surfaces of read-write magnetic disks including IDE, SATA, USB, floppy, ZIP and others. It analyzes their contents and is claimed to be able to refresh magnetic disk surfaces to allow them to operate more reliably.
SpinRite attempts to recover data from hard disks with damaged portions that may not be readable via the operating system. When the program encounters a sector with errors that cannot be corrected by the disk drive's error-correcting code, it tries to read the sector up to 2000 times, in order to determine, by comparing the successive results, the most probable value of each bit. The data is then saved onto a new block on the same disk; it cannot be saved elsewhere. In this sense, SpinRite differs from most data recovery software, which usually provides an option (generally recommended) to save the recovered data onto another disk, or onto a separate partition on the same disk. Download SpinRite 6.0 for Windows XP, Linux, Novell, and All Other File Systems
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