Anticipate Drive Problems Early with SpinRite ver. 6.0

SpinRite isn't especially inexpensive: For new users, the product is $89. Owners of earlier versions are charged between $29 and $69, depending on their version.

Nevertheless, the $89 I paid for SpinRite v6.0 proved some of my best-spent money. Of course, there are those who don't purchase SpinRite for preventative maintenance, but rather wait until after the "horse is out of the barn." Why? Who knows? SpinRite has already saved my bacon at least once -- by fixing a back-up hard drive.

I wonder how many users do not take efforts to maintain their computers' sensitive files, instead leaving their documents' fate to the whims of their whirring hard drives. SpinRite will check your systems' hard drive(s) as well as recover data therein -- regardless of the operating system flavor used. To me, it's a sound investment.

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SpinRite 6.0 for Windows XP (NTFS),
FAT, Linux, Novell, and ALL OTHER file systems!
SpinRite now brings its legendary data recovery and drive maintenance magic to the latest file systems, operating systems, and hard drives. It runs MUCH faster than ever before, can help maintain all of your drives in tip top shape, can warn of impending disaster, and wrestle data from dying and nearly dead drives . . . before it's too late.


SpinRite v6.0 achieves complete operating system independence by incorporating the FreeDOS operating system. This allows it to be used on any and all Intel/AMD PC systems. As you can see from the Windows screen image above, SpinRite 6.0 can create a bootable diskette or generate a standard, CD-R burnable ISO file to create a "SpinRite boot CD". A bootable SpinRite can also be "installed" into any other motherboard bootable devices, such as USB flashdrives for easy, portable booting and use.