Safe to remove SpinRite 6.1 USB boot disk during run?

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TroyDThompson

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I have about a dozen machines I'd like to run Spinrite on all at once, but don't really need a PXE server on my LAN. Is it safe to remove the USB flash boot drive after Spinrite 6.1 is running? Any elegant way to ensure that it's RAM resident and won't expect to write log files, etc. on the USB boot drive?
 
No, SpinRite will not behave correctly if you do that. The boot drive needs to stay in the entire time.
 
These are all owned by me. I have a stack of refurb laptops I use in a side gig, and they're due for maintenance.

I was hoping to run Spinrite at level 3 on all of these at once, but looks like PXE server, a small stash of USB flash drives, or patience is the answer!