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thudo




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PostPosted: Thu, 28th Feb 2013 19:48    Post subject: Spinrite 6 + USB3 Enclosure == Possible?
Just curious if one can get free USB3 DOS drivers to make this happen at least at the speeds of USB3 and NOT at 2 or 1.1?

I noticed there was DosUSB http://www.georgpotthast.de/usb/ but that only works for 20mins. Neutral

Can't also find any Spinrite 6 alternatives (2004 was the last revision and, yeah, this is 2013 last I checked so..).

Not sure why there is no Spinrite for Windows as it seems ancient to low-level massage a drive @ the DOS scheme. Sad

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thudo




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PostPosted: Fri, 1st Mar 2013 16:23    Post subject:
So no one has a boot USB key that can supply all the needed USB2 or ESPECIALLY USB3 drivers in DOS while then loading Spinrite6? Man this would be one seriously important key drive to repair damaged/defective drives in USB2/3 Enclosures WITHOUT having the stupid ancient need to open a case and plug it in direction to the SATA ports.

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shole




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PostPosted: Sat, 2nd Mar 2013 13:26    Post subject:
is the drive properly unretrievably physically broken, or just the filesystem?
you could just image it and study the image

i have no experience with spinrite - i usually just take what i can get with a disk image
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thudo




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PostPosted: Sat, 2nd Mar 2013 16:44    Post subject:
Well my main issue is getting the stupid USB2 drivers to work in DOS.

I get the on-board Controllers then Devices detected but then it error out right away with..

ERROR: Target USB device not found.

GAH!!

Using ASPI Manager 2.27x.

I even tried having only the single bootable USB2 key in with no other external devices connected, it finds the key drive but the same error above occurs which baffles me. The key drive doing the booting has DOS on it and is FAT32 so no issue with File System incompatibility.

This is on an Asus U36J laptop and, in BIOS, Legacy USB is enabled.

Gawd no wonder DOS was largely abandoned.. fiddling with drivers is such an ball breaker.

I want to have a fully working DOS USB2 (USB3 preferred but can't find drivers for it that I DO NOT WANT to pay for) so I can auto-run SPINRITE6 to then quickly fix HDDs and someday SSDs.

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PostPosted: Sat, 2nd Mar 2013 17:00    Post subject:
Oh, old MOBO. Then you don't have the entire range of choices of how to handle USB-storage devices. Is Spinrite 6 part of one of the Hirens boot-cd's?

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thudo




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PostPosted: Sun, 3rd Mar 2013 20:52    Post subject:
No. New Mobo.. Laptop came out late '10. DOS USB2 Drivers have been out for much earlier. Tried the same boot key in a older Lenovo (only has USB2 ports) and it successfully loaded the ASPI drivers this time but then didn't assign drive letters but at least thats further. So assume its due to the existence of the single USB3 controller on the newer laptop. Neutral Gawd what a bitch trying to get this rudimentary shiet to work. No wonder DOS died since it was a clusterfcuk of compatibility disasters. Mad

As for Spinrite6.. no its seperate by itself BUT if you don't know what Sprinrite is then.. wow.. you are missing out as it can singlehandedly brings back dead HDDs. Been using it since the early 2000s and its spectacular BUT only works in DOS.. Gah!

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Frant
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PostPosted: Sun, 3rd Mar 2013 21:31    Post subject:
thudo wrote:
No. New Mobo.. Laptop came out late '10. DOS USB2 Drivers have been out for much earlier. Tried the same boot key in a older Lenovo (only has USB2 ports) and it successfully loaded the ASPI drivers this time but then didn't assign drive letters but at least thats further. So assume its due to the existence of the single USB3 controller on the newer laptop. Neutral Gawd what a bitch trying to get this rudimentary shiet to work. No wonder DOS died since it was a clusterfcuk of compatibility disasters. Mad

As for Spinrite6.. no its seperate by itself BUT if you don't know what Sprinrite is then.. wow.. you are missing out as it can singlehandedly brings back dead HDDs. Been using it since the early 2000s and its spectacular BUT only works in DOS.. Gah!


I know what Spinrite is (although I've never used it). I often visited the developers site to check my firewall settings.

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thudo




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PostPosted: Mon, 4th Mar 2013 01:49    Post subject:
Spinrite6 is VERY useful to maintaining and restoring HDDs but for SSDs its more for basic maintenance (can only use Level 1 and 2 but nothing more).

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