I'm just download spinrite 6.1 and I want to have spinrite fix a hard drive from my pvr. I have this seagate internal drive connected to a WEME SATA/IDE adapter to USB which connects to my computer. In windows (7, 10 & 11) my USB with Spinrite shows up as F: drive but the seagate doesn't show up as a drive. If I go to printers and devices it shows up as external hard drive. It knows what kind of hard drive it is and says it working properly. In file explorer it doesn't show up ay all. When I run spinite it doesn't see it at all. Any ideas what I should do?
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Until we get to SR7, running through USB puts SpinRite at the mercy of the machine's BIOS, which is not where we want to be. SpinRite v7 will fix this by talking to the USB hardware directly. But v7 is still a long ways away. So until then, the first choice will always be to find a PC to which you can directly attach that drive. Then SpinRite will be able to work with that drive optimally.
If that's not possible, the trick to working through the BIOS (due to USB) is to have everything attached and powered up BEFORE you boot the machine. USB BIOSes will only recognize drives that are already attached, powered up and ready at the time that the machine is booted. It will definitely not work to attach the drive to the machine after it's already running.
Hope that helps!
If that's not possible, the trick to working through the BIOS (due to USB) is to have everything attached and powered up BEFORE you boot the machine. USB BIOSes will only recognize drives that are already attached, powered up and ready at the time that the machine is booted. It will definitely not work to attach the drive to the machine after it's already running.
Hope that helps!
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