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This is what Wikipedia has to say about it.SpinRite is a computer program for scanning RAS Random Access Storage
devices such as hard disks, reading and rewriting data using proprietary programming methods to resolve and retrieve
data that is unreadable by DOS or Windows. The first version was released in 1987 by Steve Gibson. The current ver-
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sion, 6.0, (available as of January 2023) was released in 2004. , with ongoing development open to the public at
https://www.grc.com/dev/spinrite/
SpinRite is run from a bootable medium (such as a CD, DVD or USB flash drive) on a PC-compatible computer, al-
lowing it to scan a computer's storage medium. It does not depend on the operating system installed on the computer.
Alan began his presentation with a brief history of the software’s evolvement from its beginnings in 1987.
