On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:09:38 -0700, you wrote:
> David Perry is right! Spinrite is great! I have been an owner since the
> first disc in about 1993... and I don't understand why I forgot it...
> Current version 6.0 handles all files you can find on a Thinkpad. The
> version for repair shops is expensive, but the $90 for personal use is money
> well spent
Spinrite WAS great in 1993 when we used disk controllers connected to MFM
drives and it could actually detect, locate and recover bad sectors. But
now with IDE drives and embedded controllers, the software is IMO a load
of overhyped nonsense which is unable to achieve anything very much more
than a surface scan by CHKDSK etc. The one good thing I can say about
Spinrite is that John Navas hates it :-)
Steve Gibson uses the same type of FUD marketing with his Shields-Up:
http://cable-dsl.home.att.net/netbios.htm#ShieldsUp
Tony
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