If spinrite loads then get out of your chair and do the happy dance. Put the usb stick in your computer, tell your computer to boot from the newly formatted usb device and once you are at a DOS prompt type “Spinrite” and press enter. That’s pretty much it, all you have to do now is take your spinrite.exe file and put a copy of it on the root of the usb stick you just formatted. Now Click browse and find folder you extracted the MS-DOS files to. Put a check in “quick format” and “Create a DOS start-up disc and using DOS system files located at. Now open the HP USB Disk storage format tool (if you are on Vista or 7 run the application as administrator.) Next extract those files to the folder of your choice. The first link should have the files you need.
SPINRITE 6 BOOT DRIVE HOW TO
All I will tell you is to Google “ How to Make a MS-DOS Bootable Flash Drive”. I would love to link you to the files needed but, Unfortunately Neowin would probably lock or delete my thread if I did. Next we need the MSDOS files to go onto the stick. Stick and turn it into MS-DOS bootable drive all at the same time.
This tool allows you to easily format a USB
SPINRITE 6 BOOT DRIVE DOWNLOAD
(Since most computers can now boot from USB drives)įirst we are going to download a utility made by HP called “HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool”. SpinRite is run from a bootable medium (such as a CD, DVD or USB memory. SpinRite 6 interacts directly with magnetic storage media at a level below any installed operating system. Version 6.0, still current as of June 2017, was released in 2004. So using SpinRite requires a reboot and once you do that, a whole world of data recovery and long-term hard drive maintenance opens up to you. The first version was released in 1987 by Steve Gibson. To make things easy on you I’m going to walk you through how to make a bootable MS-DOS USB key with spinrite. SpinRite is a computer program for scanning magnetic data storage devices such as hard disks, recovering data from them and refreshing their surfaces. To get around this issue, you have to create a bootable Disc or USB stick with MS-DOS instead of FreeDOS. This usually occurred over 50% into the scan depending on the size of the drive.Īfter researching the error online, it appears that it’s not a problem with spinrite but an issue with the FreeDOS (MS-DOS) clone that Steve Gibson bundles with spinrite. Once spinrite gets to a certain point in the scan, it will throw up a red screen with a “Division Overflow Error'. As some of you who use spinrite very frequently may have noticed, spinrite will usually crash when scanning larger drives (in my experiences it's been on drives over 640GB).
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