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From: jdudeck@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (John R. Dudeck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Hard drive problem (SPINRITE II)
Message-ID: <25e4b0fd.36f5@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 23 Feb 90 03:41:49 GMT
References: <1617@crash.cts.com>
Reply-To: jdudeck@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (John R. Dudeck)
Organization: Cal Poly State University -- San Luis Obispo
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In article <1617@crash.cts.com> elund@pro-graphics.cts.com (Eric Lund) writes:
>I never thought I'd be one to look for room to plug Spinrite II.  I've heard
>of a lot of problems using the program.  Stopping the program (by following
>the instructions) can be dangerous and you risk losing boot capability and
>maybe some data.  That is a scary factor, but it may help to know I had been

I have been using Spinrite II ever since it was available, and have never
had problems interrupting it and restarting it.  Where did you hear this?
Perhaps you are thinking of the original Spinrite version?

I should mention that I always boot from floppy when running Spinrite II.
I have made up a diskette especially for that purpose, as they recommend.

While on the subject, I will mention that Spinrite II will handle large
partitions, whereas Spinrite only worked for 32k or smaller partitions.

-- 
John Dudeck                           "You want to read the code closely..." 
jdudeck@Polyslo.CalPoly.Edu             -- C. Staley, in OS course, teaching 
ESL: 62013975 Tel: 805-545-9549          Tanenbaum's MINIX operating system.