SpinRite II
SpinRite, by Gibson Research, is a tool that can diagnose, repair, and rejuvenate the low-level formatting and optimize the interleave of MFM and RLL (ST412/506 interface) hard disk drives. Its pattern testing ability is also useful for verifying the operation of SCSI and IDE hard drives.
For a much more detailed explanation of what SpinRite does and does not do, see: Software spotlight: SpinRite
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Release notes
Spinrite II was the most popular version, primarily used for MFM/RLL hard drives.
Installation instructions
Write the disk image to a 360k floppy disk, or use WinImage to extract.
Information
- Product type
- Application Utility
- Vendor
- Gibson Research
- Release date
- 1989
- Minimum CPU
- 8088
- User interface
- Text
- Platform
- DOS
- Download count
- 29 (9 for release)
Downloads
| Download name | Version | Language | Architecture | File size | Downloads |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 SpinRite II Manuals |
II | English |
|
29.63MB | 2 |
 SpinRite II v1.0 (1989) (5.25-360k) |
II v1.0 | English |
|
163.79KB | 3 |
 SpinRite II v1.1 (1990) (5.25-360k) (3.5-720k) |
II v1.1 | English |
|
856.39KB | 2 |
|
SpinRite II v2.0 (1991) (5.25-360k) |
II v2.0 | English |
|
95.77KB | 2 |