#Spinrite 6.1 release date update

I’d like to argue that it is those professionals that actually know what they’re talking about. Now I have seen plenty of people claiming that of course data recovery professionals will try put Spinrite in a bad light because it’s in their interest that people bring drives to their companies. More cautionary tales on Spinrite in Luke’s forum. – Excellent debunking of claims made by Spinrite done by Franc Zabkar.

#Spinrite 6.1 release date update

Update Jan 2020: If you want more Spinrite debunking, or maybe if you think I am full of shit, I recommend you do some more reading: In that case you need file recovery software. If you need to undelete or recover files from a corrupt file system, a formatted or deleted partition you’ll be wasting your time using Spinrite. įirstly it is important to stress that Spinrite is not file recovery software. I decided to do this post after having a yet another discussion here. All over the web you will find people who unfortunately suggest to run Spinrite for the purpose of recovery of data from ‘dead’ disks.

I am mainly interested in the data recovery portion of Spinrite. What it actually can do can be done faster and safer using other, sometimes free, software. Using Spinrite for the purpose of data recovery is bad practice.

It is safer (read-only) and more effective due to lower level hardware access. If you’re struggling to get data of a disk that’s ill behaving due to bad sectors, instead use something like HDDSuperClone ( ). It is not my intention to change the fanatic’s opinion but I hope you will think twice before using Spinrite for the purpose of data recovery. However every so often I get tangled up in discussions where I feel the need to explain that Spinrite is not data recovery software and that the perceived magic Spinrite performs is not magic. Why Spinrite is not Data Recovery software.