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Whoops!

Shortly after SpinRite v6.1's release, we discovered that although bootable USB media creation works correctly, I broke something in the bootable diskette image creation that's used for the diskette, ISO and IMG boot media. Somehow, the SPINRITE.EXE program that's created on the diskette image is flagged as a "Volume Label", not as an executable program.

I've been working on this week's podcast since this was discovered so I haven't had time to fix it. But there will be a second release of SpinRite soon. (y)
 
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