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Two minutes into the video and I still donвЂ™t know what it does (yeah, вЂmagicвЂ™). In essence you could describe Spinrite, itвЂ™s use, and methodology in a few sentences. On the main Spinrite page you will see a video that supposedly explains what Spinrite does, and also an URL to testimonials.

It is hard to get a quick and easy written description from the Gibson Research website what Spinrite actually is and does. If you understand how disk error management works, SpinriteвЂ™s miracles are easily explained by sector reallocation. What the heck is Spinrite and what does it do? Worse still, SpinRite did not even alert the user that the original sector was bad, or that it had been вЂњrepairedвЂќ. вЂњLcougheyвЂќ then showed that SpinRite replaced the contents of a bad sector with random data. To summarise the thread in a nutshell, forum member вЂњNesaвЂќ demonstrated that HDD Regenerator replaced the contents of an unreadable sector in the user area with a sector from the driveвЂ™s own firmware. Not enough? Strong indications that the вЂrepairedвЂ™ data written back to the drive by Spinrite and similar tools are just bogus, and. IвЂ™d like to argue that it is those professionals that actually know what theyвЂ™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 itвЂ™s in their interest that people bring drives to their companies. More cautionary tales on Spinrite in LukeвЂ™s forum. вЂ“ Excellent debunking of claims made by Spinrite done by Franc Zabkar.

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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 youвЂ™ll be wasting your time using Spinrite. ДЇirstly 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 вЂdeadвЂ™ 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 youвЂ™re struggling to get data of a disk thatвЂ™s ill behaving due to bad sectors, instead use something like HDDSuperClone ( ). It is not my intention to change the fanaticвЂ™s opinion but I hope you will think twice before using Spinrite for the purpose of data recovery.

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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.

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