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djbisbey

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Does anyone know if Spinrite 7 will be able to be used on the above, would love to make my SSD come back to life with SR7

Thanks

Darren
 
Doubt it. SR is written in x86 ASM. For SR to work on ARM based CPUs, Steve would either have to learn ARM ASM, or switch to a language that compiles to ARM code.
 
Apple users have been using SpinRite in virtual machines where they couldn't get FreeDOS to boot directly on the hardware. I don't know if there is support for Apple Silicon in these setups, but you can certainly read the posts and see if you can determine if there is any hope (I think that approach makes it more work, and I feel like trying to operate on the hardware while it is running an OS is a really bad idea if not an impossibility.)
 
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