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
Spinrite II was the most popular version, primarily used for MFM/RLL hard drives.
Write the disk image to a 360k floppy disk, or use WinImage to extract.
Download name | Version | Language | Architecture | File size | Downloads |
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SpinRite II Manuals | II | English | 29.63MB | 2 | |
SpinRite II v1.0 (1989) (5.25-360k) | II v1.0 | English | 163.79KB | 0 | |
SpinRite II v1.1 (1990) (5.25-360k) (3.5-720k) | II v1.1 | English | 856.39KB | 1 | |
SpinRite II v2.0 (1991) (5.25-360k) | II v2.0 | English | 95.77KB | 2 |