There are a total of 5 data analysis and recovery settings in SpinRite: 1) Examine the Surfaces - provides a complete report on the drive's health; 2) Recover Unreadable Data - uses Gibson Research's proprietary tolerance & recovery routines to fully rewrite the entire disk, analyzing and co...
Leon wrote in his Microsystems Magazine review of SpinRite: "SpinRite describes itself as a truly new generation of hard disk utilities, which is a marvel of understatement." We have seen that mass storage systems need periodic preventive maintenance because surface defects actually GROW on ...