Follow up on the SpinRite Like / Dislike? thread: http://www.computing.net/answers/wi... I strongly agree with TheMacOne guy. Early last month my brother's XP laptop was unusable and been getting STOP 0x000000ED "Unmountable_boot_volume" blue screen error at startup with status code status 0xc000009c. I could not access CHKDSK /R from either XP safe mode nor the XP recovery console. So I used SpinRite 6.0 to fix the hard drive sector problems. It found a bunch of bad sectors and recovered most of the data from those flaw sectors and my brother's XP laptop was bootable again. Spinrite excels best as a disk checking/disk repair utility (and an above-average data recovery tool) and I HIGHLY recommend it for fixing hard drives & floppy drives with defective sectors. Another advantage of using Spinrite is that you can specify the percentage "%" range or a section of the hard drive you want to scan. Heck you can even interrupt the Spinrite disk checking and resume it another time; something you can't do with CHKDSK/SCANDISK.

Musky and I have been saying that for years.I introduced Musky to spinrite months ago and he has saved many customers data as I have.It is probably the BEST program to recover data.

I have actually run it on two machines so far today and am setting it up to run on two more over night. I use it constantly here at the shop. I also use it on my own machines periodically as a maintenance tool. I'm sure it has prevented more disk errors then I'll ever know. Best thing per ever turned me onto, but it was longer then "months ago". I believe I've been using it for well over two years now! I could be wrong; old age will screw up your sense of time like nothing else! LOL Musky If the voices inside my head paid rent, I'd be rich!

LOL! Months can be tranlated into years. A matter of perception.

A lot of cash for Freedos. "Best Practices", Event viewer, host file, perfmon, are in my top 10

Yea wow spinright works....now let sleeping posts die and stay dead In The Matters Of Style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, Stand Like A Rock "People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."

Spoken like a true cynic! LOL Musky If the voices inside my head paid rent, I'd be rich!