Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!pacbell.com!pacbell!sactoh0!kk4fs!ambush From: ambush@kk4fs.UUCP (Ambush Bug) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps Subject: Re: SPINRITE Keywords: Does it really work? Message-ID: Date: 13 Nov 90 05:42:00 GMT References: <666@seer.UUCP> Organization: KK4FS - Free Speech Forum, +1 615 283 0864 for BBS Lines: 15 My experience with Spinrite has been: Yes, it reformats your hard disk, but it's so slow that unless you've got a 330 meg job you're backing up onto 360K floppies, it's faster to back it up and then reformat it. Yes, it can recover bad sectors, but they'll go bad again as soon as you write something to them (adios, data!) All in all, it's not worth it. It's slow and clunky. What's more, you can really screw things up with it. Aviod it. It's a "Gee-whiz" program, it's really neat what it can do, but what it can do isn't very useful. Sort of like a virus... Later,