Steve Gibson & SpinRite 6.0 on TechTV

This clip was made in San Francisco with Patrick Norton, then the host of "The ScreenSavers" television show on TechTV. Patrick and Steve had a good discussion about the data recovery aspects of SpinRite 6 and how SpinRite is able to recover data even from impossible to read hard and floppy drive sectors.

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[stapledshut6]

Everybody should check out the "Security Now" Podcast.

[jawn108]

SpinRite is great, it saved my friends laptop. Yes Security Now is a great listen for any tech interested person.

[quittix3]

What an idiot...

He says it swaps in a new sector and swaps out the bad sector. Then he said that "fixes it".

It doesn't fix anything, it just ignores the bad ones.

It keeps trying and trying to recover bad sectors, which can most likely spread the damage..

[notthere83]

it's really unfortunate that nobody every talks about the recovery abilities of this tool on a large scale. it's always about recovery of some bad sectors or something. well... once a hdd has failed, i don't see how it would help to fix a couple of errors. i would be more interested if it's low level read capabilities can help in rescuing at least some data from a drive that can't be fully restored any more.

[CalicoatMaker]

This program is great, but he is SO FULL OF CRAP when talking about upnp and other Windows functions. He's just DEAD WRONG and every experienced computer expert agrees. Just check online for "steve gibson wrong" or "incorrect"

[wwjoshdew]

@fabiuh991 my other computer would boot with the usb drive it creaeted, but my lenovo laptop won't. And I can boot pupply linux off the same thumb drive. SO I gave in a burned a cd.

[TheCyberbedouin]

the best best best software

programed in assembly language!!!

i recovered WD80gb hdd with 72 b.s.

and now works fine.

[fabiuh991]

i installed it on a usb stick but when the computer is restarted it cant boot from it =s now what =/

[hyphens]

My only problem with SpinRite is that when I ran it, it wasnt able to recover my data, it erased the bad sectors that were marked by chkdsk, and made everything a lot worse. I am pretty confident that it will work with minor defects, but I was dealing with nearly 15% of the drive as marked bad.