SpinRite 1.x

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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Installation instructions

This version must be configured by booting the floppy disk.

Product type
Application Utility
Vendor
Gibson Research
Release date
1988
Minimum CPU
8088
User interface
Text
Platform
DOS
Download count
24 (7 for release)

Downloads

Download name Version Language Architecture File size Downloads
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

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