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
Download name | Version | Language | Architecture | File size | Downloads |
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SpinRite 1.2 Manual (1988) | 1.2 | English | 25.91MB | 4 | |
SpinRite 1.2b (1988) (5.25-360k) | 1.2b | English | 3.52MB | 2 | |
SpinRite 1.2b (1988) (5.25-360k) (alt) | 1.2b | English | 1.8MB | 1 |