SpinRite 5.0
SpinRite, by Gibson Research, is a tool that can diagnose, repair, and rejuvenate the low-level formatting and optimize the interleave of MFM and RLL (ST412/506 interface) hard disk drives. Its pattern testing ability is also useful for verifying the operation of SCSI and IDE hard drives.
For a much more detailed explanation of what SpinRite does and does not do, see: Software spotlight: SpinRite
Release notes
Spinrite 5 adds extra support for IDE drives. It is also significant as it is the last to run on 8088/8086 CPUs.
Information
- Product type
- Application Utility
- Release date
- 1998
- Minimum CPU
- 8088
- User interface
- Text
- Platform
- DOS
- Download count
- 30 (22 for release)
Downloads
| Download name | Version | Language | Architecture | File size | Downloads |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 SpinRite 5.0 (5.25) |
5.0 | English |
|
96.49KB | 22 |