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The best way to learn what SpinRite 6.0 can do for you is to click the
PLAY button below to watch this fun, interesting and fact-filled video:

No one does a better job of describing and selling
SpinRite than its own users. Please click this link
to read some of the eMail we continually receive
from SpinRite's new purchasers.

An Independent Review of SpinRite 6.0

KickstartNews recently reviewed our new SpinRite v6.0.
Here's a piece of their experience . . .

The opportunity for the first test appeared only one day after we received our copy of version 6. An 80GB hard drive on one of our busy storage servers decided to pack it in. Prior to trying SpinRite we were still able to access the drive intermittently but it was impossible to copy data or run a file undelete utility. A handful of important files had been written to the drive subsequent to the last backup the previous night; files which we needed within about 48 hours, which meant that a professional data recovery service (with its three week backlog) was out of the question. We removed the drive and installed it in an identical hardware configuration, then booted SpinRite 6 from CD and did a Level 2 recovery (see above for recovery level definitions). After 22 hours, SpinRite completed its work and pronounced the drive fully recovered. We reinstalled the drive in the original server. It ran perfectly, the research assistant who had created the required files copied them off the drive and that was that. Nice job SpinRite 6. The drive was still running fine as we went to publication with this review two weeks after the incident. We used a level 2 setting in SpinRite: Recover Unreadable Data.

You may read the entire SpinRite 6.0 review at Kickstartnews.

See what customers who use SpinRite think about it,
and for answers to the most common questions . . .

An independent look at SpinRite
by someone who knows it well.

Jay S. Zeltzer has written a SpinRite v6.0 review for SysOpt.com. Jay's review reveals his long-standing knowledge and experience with SpinRite.

You may read the entire SpinRite 6.0 review at SysOpt.com.

A review with Great Screen Shots

Leon Goldstein wrote a SpinRite v6.0 review for the Linux Journal. Leon's review includes shows some great screen shots of SpinRite in operation.

You may read the entire SpinRite 6.0 review at The Linux Journal.

Don Watkins talks about SpinRite & me

One of the founding fathers of the PC revolution, Don Watkins, made some room on his site to talk about my work and SpinRite 6.0. Thanks Don!

Check out that page and Don's great site.

Monday, June 7th, 2004 — SpinRite 6.0 Released

After more than seven months of non-stop development, and more than two months of continuous testing by hundreds of SpinRite 6.0 pre-purchase volunteers (see our grc.spinrite.dev newsgroup on our news server at news.grc.com), it is with great pride that we release the sixth major version of SpinRite for upgrade to prior users and sale to new users.

By operating directly upon magnetic storage media at a level below any installed operating system, this major milestone release of SpinRite is able to operate on all Windows XP NTFS formats, all DOS FAT, all Linux file systems, Novell, Macintosh (if temporarily moved into a PC) or anything else — it can even be used to repair and recover the hard drive from an ailing TiVo!

SpinRite v6.0 achieves complete operating system independence by incorporating the FreeDOS operating system. This allows it to be used on any and all Intel/AMD PC systems. As you can see from the Windows screen image above, SpinRite 6.0 can create a bootable diskette or generate a standard, CD-R burnable ISO file to create a "SpinRite boot CD". A bootable SpinRite can also be "installed" into any other motherboard bootable devices, such as USB flashdrives for easy, portable booting and use.

If you are not already familiar with SpinRite's 16-year track record of seemingly
miraculous data recovery, or if you're not sure SpinRite is for you, please take
a few minutes to read some true-life stories from SpinRite's users!

The most common pre-purchase questions can be quickly answered by reading SpinRite's Frequently Asked Questions page. Please check it out!

To learn about SpinRite's history and much of its technology and capabilities, please see our existing, extensive, SpinRite web area and documentation.

Or click this button to begin the process of upgrading or purchasing your own copy of the world's leading mass storage maintenance and data recovery utility . . .

Or read what SpinRite's past users have to say about the program and find answers to other questions you might have . . .

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