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Spinrite alternative that uses better USB drivers?

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TriggerHappy101

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I am looking for a Spinrite alternative that has better support for USB. I have a USB to IDE 3.5/2.5 & SATA adapter. Spinrite seems to be going at about USB 1.1 speed and it said it will take 10 hours to do a level 2 scan on a laptop 20GB HD. Not acceptable.
The converter

I love spinrite but I guess I need an alternative program that runs inside Windows and does the same thing as spinrite. Checks and re-checks for bad sectors and tells me Smart data reports.

Price isnt a problem.

Thanks!
 
Originally posted by: TriggerHappy101
I am looking for a Spinrite alternative that has better support for USB. I have a USB to IDE 3.5/2.5 & SATA adapter. Spinrite seems to be going at about USB 1.1 speed and it said it will take 10 hours to do a level 2 scan on a laptop 20GB HD. Not acceptable.
The converter

I love spinrite but I guess I need an alternative program that runs inside Windows and does the same thing as spinrite. Checks and re-checks for bad sectors and tells me Smart data reports.

Price isnt a problem.

Thanks!
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there is nothing comparable to Spinrite, I have found some weird german utilities that claim to be similar but they took even longer to run. I don't think the speed thing is due to USB speed, Spinrite can be slooooow. Took me close to a 19 hours to run a complete test on my 74gig Raptor.

Also with the way the drive is accessed by Spinrite I doubt it would even be possible to have a program that could do it in Windows.

 
Originally posted by: QueBert
Originally posted by: TriggerHappy101
I am looking for a Spinrite alternative that has better support for USB. I have a USB to IDE 3.5/2.5 & SATA adapter. Spinrite seems to be going at about USB 1.1 speed and it said it will take 10 hours to do a level 2 scan on a laptop 20GB HD. Not acceptable.
The converter

I love spinrite but I guess I need an alternative program that runs inside Windows and does the same thing as spinrite. Checks and re-checks for bad sectors and tells me Smart data reports.

Price isnt a problem.

Thanks!
Click to expand...

there is nothing comparable to Spinrite, I have found some weird german utilities that claim to be similar but they took even longer to run. I don't think the speed thing is due to USB speed, Spinrite can be slooooow. Took me close to a 19 hours to run a complete test on my 74gig Raptor.

Also with the way the drive is accessed by Spinrite I doubt it would even be possible to have a program that could do it in Windows.
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It shouldnt take 19 hours for a 74gb raptor - if it did you have something wrong with your harddrive.

Ive run spinrite on this laptop hard drive without the USB adapter and it didn't take anywhere near what it said with the USB.

USB drivers arent supported that well for DOS programs.
 
Why are you still bumping this topic???? You can't have both convenience and speed. As you said yourself, USB isn't supported well in DOS. So that's why you need to run the HD directly off the IDE channel. And there is no comparable program like Spinrite for Windows.
 
The long time required by deep analysis and correction in SpinRite 6 is not really a problem. Start it going after dinner - and let it run all night. It will be ready when you get up.

You can't do any of that stuff inside of XP because of constant file sharing violations.

For more speed externally, get a NexStar eSATA external case and a eSATA PCMCIA card for your lappie and do it that way. It will be significantly faster than USB.
 
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