ACER NITRO 5 UEFI cannot run Spinrite 6.1

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Hi everybody, I have an (old??) ACER Nitro 5 laptop that is UEFI only (and not changeable) system.
I know there's something wrong with the internal HDD so, as I wasn't able to boot from DOS with Spinrite 6.1, I dismounted the HDD, brought over a second much older machine that used Windows 7 and is DOS enabled but I wasn't able to run spinrite this was the message on SR 6.1:


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This is my HDD:
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Of course, seen that message I stopped everything and mounted back again my HDD (is not boot disk, only DATA) do my Acer Nitro 5 AN515-45-R0LY / 32GB (Year: 2021).
Is there a not too complicated way to run Spinrite over it?
Is it correct the message SpinRite outputs trying to access the DRIVE 1 (the barracuda 2TB) ?
The HDD runs... (I'm just using it on my MAIN laptop) but I'm afraid has some troubles as sometimes is lagging and taking too much to respond...

BTW, how much time is missing to have 7.1 Steve?? I've being following you since the first security now, and SR 6.1 is great, but we'd need an easy way to deal with those new trash... ehm... fantastic UEFI machines as we have non chance to buy a non UEFI now as far as I know.

Thanks a lot
Luca R. (from Rome, Italy)
 
@LuxNews You seem to have your SpinRite versions mixed up? :unsure: As Colby noted, the screen shot is from SpinRite 6.0.

The message "MBR followed by EFI" means that drive is GPT formatted. SpinRite 6.0 is NOT compatible with GPT formatting. SpinRite 6.1 however, will work with GPT formatting just fine.

If you do have SpinRite 6.1, please try that on the Windows 7 machine. SpinRite 6.1 WILL work (and scan that drive) on that Win 7 machine! :)
 
Thanks a LOT, you were right I mismatched the CD SR version!!!
I'll try to dismount again and redo the tests with the real SR 6.1
I'm so sorry for disturbing you unnecessarily!
Thanks so much!
 
@LuxNews As Colby said, no worries!

If you would, please post the results of a SR 6.1 scan of the drive on your Win 7 machine?
 
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