Adrian's Digital Basement youtube channel using SpinRite 2.0

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I am not sure if anyone here watch "Adrian's Digital Basement" youtube channel where usually Andrian deals with old hardware from the 80s-90s era.
I cam cross this episode where he tries to see if he can revive what is known a hardcards which are 8bit ISA cards which integrate a hard drive.

One of the drives which apparently was last used in 1997 was failing and he tried to revive it with SpinRite 2.0 :) .
TL;DR he was not able to do it the drive was really degrading up to the point when writing something to it will not take affect.

Still he said some really nice words about SpinRite :) .

Here is the episode if you want to watch using SpinRite starts around 28 min..... there is a follow up episode I have not watched till today due to lack of time:)
 
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