Nope. SpinRite is not a drive defragmenter. SpinRite operates with the drive's built-in intelligence to reassign and relocate defective sectors without creating file system fragments. Thus, running SpinRite does not create fragments, but neither does it eliminate any that may exist before it was run. You may use any common defragmenter (such as those built into Windows) either before or after using SpinRite.

SpinRite can run on any PC compatible system with a 32-bit Intel or AMD processor and a color screen. The previous SpinRite v5.0 is available to v6.0 owners who need to run SpinRite on older 16-bit 8086/80286 systems and/or monochrome screens. SpinRite is self-contained, including its own bootable FreeDOS operating system. It can be used on any operating system and any file system.

The simple rule of thumb is that if drives can work and be recognized under DOS, perhaps with the addition of extra device drivers, they should be "seen" and usable by SpinRite. The only types of drives which probably won't work under SpinRite are those which totally depend upon Windows device drives and which have no DOS support. Otherwise, SpinRite should be able to see the drive and work with its contents. All you need to do is change the filename in the software download URL from "spinrite.

its maximum depth of operation, performing a complete read/write/read/write for data recovery and surface analysis/verification, SpinRite can obtain extremely high speeds of up to 2 gigabytes per minute, or 120 gigabytes per hour. However, that is SpinRite's maximum speed and many things can cause it to run slower and, in some cases, much slower . . .

Your purchase receipt — which you should try not to lose — contains your purchase transaction code. You may visit the customer service page of our web site at any time to enter your purchase transaction number. This will re-display a copy of your original online receipt containing a fresh software download link you may use to retrieve the latest version of our software. You may do this whenever you need to.

We have never created nor offered a demo version of SpinRite because people would just download and use the demo whenever they needed SpinRite's help. Unlike "productivity" software such as a word processor or appointment manager which are used all the time, SpinRite is typically needed only from time to time. But when it's needed it's really needed and it's really useful! So if a demo of SpinRite were available, people would just use the demo whenever they were in trouble.

This is mostly a matter of personal taste. For example, how often should you backup your data? However, a general rule of thumb would be that SpinRite should be run every two or three months. Running it more often provides greater safety at the expense of the time consumed. Running it less often provides more opportunity for new problems to go undetected until they become severe. Once every few months should be often enough to catch and detect any early trouble.

SpinRite and ScanDisk are entirely different types of products. ScanDisk replaces the original DOS CHKDSK command, which verified the logical file system structure of the hard drive (the newer CHKDSK command no longer performs that function). Microsoft created ScanDisk because people were switching off their computers without first exiting Windows. This resulted in corruption of the file system.

SpinRite was deliberately designed to absolutely minimize the "window of opportunity" for trouble if the system's power should fail while SpinRite is running. We, and many editorial product reviewers, have literally "pulled the plug" on SpinRite with no ill effects. However, reliable use of a personal computer does depend upon a supply of reliable power. If system power fails at the instant of a drive writing to its disks, the single sector being written will, of course, be mis-written.

You can defragment a diskette by doing a File Copy of all files to a blank formatted* diskette or RAM disk which is the same size as the original. The Files on the copy diskette or RAM disk will be almost completely unfragmented. Note: If the diskette is supposed to be bootable, the target disk should be INITialized for the DOS (e.g. DOS 3.3 or ProDOS) used on the original before doing the copying. For DOS 3.3, you INIT a disk.

SpinRite is a single program file that offers completely different services when it is run under Windows or DOS. It should first be run under Windows to choose and create some form of bootable media. You can choose to create a self-booting floppy diskette, a bootable CD-R ISO image file, or to prepare a USB flash drive or other bootable device for booting.

SpinRite is a single 170 Kbyte downloadable file, so it can be easily and quickly obtained through even the slowest Internet connections.

The best answer to this is a firm "maybe". DOS device drivers are available for most USB and Firewire controllers. If such drivers are added to a DOS boot diskette so that your USB or Firewire drive is "seen" by DOS, SpinRite will also be able to "see" and operate with it. However, the performance of the drive through the DOS drivers and the serial (USB/Firewire) cable will likely be far lower than if the external drive were connected directly to a PC's motherboard controller.

SpinRite is able to operate upon drives behind a thin RAID-0 controller configuration without any modification. By a "thin controller" we mean a controller like an add-on Promise controller, or typical RAID controller built into a motherboard. Specifically, one that is not providing its own high-end microprocessor with megs of independent RAID caching RAM memory.

After a volume has been in use for a while, after many writes to the disk, the files can end up fragmented. That is not in one consecutive place on the disk, but in many small pieces. This causes a slowdown when trying to access these files. Windows 2000 and XP have a defragmenting program built in. For users of Windows NT, there is a free program to do the same job. Diskeeper Lite can be downloaded from: http://diskeeper.com

You may save up to 20 drives. Drives may cover different destinations (e.g. from home to work, or home to school) as well as different paths to and from those places (e.g. home to work by two different roadways) to help you compare and choose the best way to go.

No software of any sort can truly low-level format today's modern drives. The ability to low-level format hard drives was lost back in the early 1990's when disc surfaces began incorporating factory written "embedded servo data". If you have a very old drive that can truly be low-level reformatted, SpinRite v5.0 will do that for you (which all v6.0 owners are welcome to download and run anytime).

This is up to you and your car pool. If you all have vehicles you may wish to rotate who is driving each day. Or, if only one of you have a car the owner may wish to drive everyday, or allow one of the passengers to drive on some days. It is totally up to you how to create your car pool.

Watch the dutil output (see file dmsdos.doc for a dutil description). It displays a fragmentation value. You should keep it below 75% to feel safe. When dutil even displays a warning about high fragmentation, you should immediately boot Dos and defragment the CVF. Yes. All earlier problems have been avoided by moving dmsdos one layer down in the filesystem interface. Well, it does not support *compressed* FAT32 filesystems.

I will not have any type of biometric device connected to my computer. Instead of using all three authentication methods offered by this product, can I only use two-factor authentication

Well the best thing to do would be to shutoff all running programs. Step 1: Go to start, then all programs, then accesories, then go to system tools, in the system tools folder you will find something called DISK DEFRAGMENTER click on that. The program will pop up. Now what you need to do highlight the hard drive you want to defragment. Most people have 1 hard drive which would be called the (C:) Drive highlight that by clicking on it. Then click the button that says defragment near the bottom.

After a volume has been in use for a while, after many writes to the disk, the files can end up fragmented. That is not in one consecutive place on the disk, but in many small pieces. This causes a slowdown when trying to access these files. Windows 2000, XP and Server 2003 have a defragmenting program built in. For users of Windows NT, there is a free program to do the same job. "Diskeeper Lite" can be downloaded from: http://diskeeper.com/

This particular problem is mainly due to an internal head amplifier failure or, more seriously, a head crash or misalignment problem, the majority of which are recoverable.

When you set up an alert, you always define one primary drive that is your main route and the one we monitor for traffic conditions. Once you've defined the alert for the primary drive, you can add alternate drives to it. We don't monitor the alternates for traffic conditions, but when we give you a alert on your primary we try to include summary information for the alternates. How this information is included varies depending on the type of alert.

I can claim to be stupid but it wouldn't do me much good. I do not understand the words you wrote after quoting words I wrote. The confusion remains to be unconfused and that can happen if there is an agreement to do so.

All 2.5" drives are designed to be screwed into the same mount. It wouldn't be hard to drill some new holes in the mount if you needed to for some strange reason.

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