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  • SpinRite v6.1 Release #3
    Guest:
    The 3rd release of SpinRite v6.1 is published and may be obtained by all SpinRite v6.0 owners at the SpinRite v6.1 Pre-Release page. (SpinRite will shortly be officially updated to v6.1 so this page will be renamed.) The primary new feature, and the reason for this release, was the discovery of memory problems in some systems that were affecting SpinRite's operation. So SpinRite now incorporates a built-in test of the system's memory. For the full story, please see this page in the "Pre-Release Announcements & Feedback" forum.
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  • BootAble – FreeDOS boot testing freeware

    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.

    GRC's “BootAble” freeware allows anyone to easily create BIOS-bootable media in order to workout and confirm the details of getting a machine to boot FreeDOS through a BIOS. Once the means of doing that has been determined, the media created by SpinRite can be booted and run in the same way.

    The participants here, who have taken the time to share their knowledge and experience, their successes and some frustrations with booting their computers into FreeDOS, have created a valuable knowledgebase which will benefit everyone who follows.

    You may click on the image to the right to obtain your own copy of BootAble. Then use the knowledge and experience documented here to boot your computer(s) into FreeDOS. And please do not hesitate to ask questions – nowhere else can better answers be found.

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Samsung SSD 850 EVO 1TB // Seagate ST3000DM001-1ER166 3TB

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Niels2000

Just posting some specs and speeds for community reference. Program works great.

Code: 
Driv Size  Drive Identity     Location:    0      25%     50%     75%     100
---- ----- ---------------------------- ------- ------- ------- ------- -------
81  1.0TB Samsung SSD 850 EVO 1TB       511.9   509.9   499.1   530.7   511.9
82  3.0TB ST3000DM001-1ER166            196.9   196.9   176.4   145.5    94.1

                  Benchmarked: Tuesday, 2020-12-29 at 22:26

Edit: Looks better as code block.


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JimBob

Hey thanks for posting here Niels2000. The drives you've reported upon here are virtually the same ones I use (that SSD in my primary Win10x64 box, and 2 ST 3 TByte HDDs in my Seagate D4 NAS).

I may get round to using this kewl new tool from Steve later in 2021, but this helps me for the moment...


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