I have searched EVERYWHERE for help. So I have my copy of SpinRite 6. Finally was able to burn the ISO image to a CD, booted from the CD, got into the SpinRite OS, and just sort of winged it. I didn’t change any setting or anything like that, simply followed the instructions to choose which drive to work on and hit either enter or spacebar as needed. Waited 5 hours for whatever it was doing to finish. Finally finished, said operation was completed successfully, yet all of the data screens you can view afterwards didn’t seem to show anything.
So I’m not sure what happened. After it was finished I looked over those several review screens and, since none of it really made sense to me, gave up on interpreting and exited. I wasn’t even sure how to tell if any data was recovered or if I was supposed to direct the recovered data somewhere else or what. No manual after version 5 available so I’m at a loss. I feel like I made good progress on my own, but now I’m desperate. I simply cannot lose some of the files that were on my external. Tried to load up the external after I finished, yet still says “drive is unavailable or corrupted.”
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I suppose it’s possible I chose the “operation 1” which I guess just scanned the HDD. Like I said, I didn’t make any special changes other than choosing the external. So if it starts on operation 1 by default then that would make sense, however when viewing the screens at the end there was a little “square root sign/checkmark” next to operation 2. Anyone know? PLEASE?!?!