I understand I need to turn off secure boot and put the machine in legacy boot mode . . . but I can not find the option to do the later in the bios. Can anyone assist me? Did I waste my money buying SR to try to fix a machine that can't even run the software?
Getting Alienware Aurora R12 to boot via USB
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To obtain direct, low-level access to a system's mass storage drives, SpinRite runs under a GRC-customized version of FreeDOS which has been modified to add compatibility with all file systems. In order to run SpinRite it must first be possible to boot FreeDOS.
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The bad news: The Alienware Aurora R12 appears to be UEFI boot only. Thus SpinRite 6.1 cannot boot or run on this machine.
The good news: You have NOT wasted your money!
GRC has a no questions asked refund policy.
Just send an email to sales2024@grc.com
Or see also: https://www.grc.com/cs/customerservice.htm
Also: The free BootAble utility tool is intended to verify BIOS and FreeDOS booting before buying SpinRite.
The good news: You have NOT wasted your money!
GRC has a no questions asked refund policy.
Just send an email to sales2024@grc.comOr see also: https://www.grc.com/cs/customerservice.htm
Also: The free BootAble utility tool is intended to verify BIOS and FreeDOS booting before buying SpinRite.
Another option may be to boot SpinRite in a virtual machine, which is what Mac users do. It's documented on this site, but it's a bit more complicated than just booting into FreeDOS in legacy boot.
Great news . . . well, at least the 2nd half . . . but I'm seeing this almost 3 weeks later. Have I missed the return window?The bad news: The Alienware Aurora R12 appears to be UEFI boot only. Thus SpinRite 6.1 cannot boot or run on this machine.
The good news: You have NOT wasted your money!
GRC has a no questions asked refund policy.
Or see also: https://www.grc.com/cs/customerservice.htm
Also: The free BootAble utility tool is intended to verify BIOS and FreeDOS booting before buying SpinRite.
There is NO return window. Just contact GRC per my previous post.
@DanR is correct, @PhotoJoeCA ... There is no return window. If you purchased SpinRite and find that you have never been able to obtain any value from it, no one here (at GRC) will argue against refunding your purchase and canceling your lifetime license. Our philosophy is that if we didn't get you now, we'll hopefully get you later. And, in fact, SpinRite 7, which will run from Windows, will work just fine on your machine. But since we will be asking SpinRite 6.1 owners who purchased SpinRite some time ago to pay to upgrade their license to v7, if you cannot use SpinRite 6.1 at all now, you would save money returning it and then purchasing SR7 later.
sales2024@grc.com is not a typo?The bad news: The Alienware Aurora R12 appears to be UEFI boot only. Thus SpinRite 6.1 cannot boot or run on this machine.
The good news: You have NOT wasted your money!
GRC has a no questions asked refund policy.
Or see also: https://www.grc.com/cs/customerservice.htm
Also: The free BootAble utility tool is intended to verify BIOS and FreeDOS booting before buying SpinRite.
I've written a few now and have not received a response.
As of Jan 01, 2025 it should be: sales2025@grc.com
That said, the 2024 address should forward OK.
Also there is: https://www.grc.com/cs/customerservice.htm
That said, the 2024 address should forward OK.
Also there is: https://www.grc.com/cs/customerservice.htm
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