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by snuffy09

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I have a copy of spinrite 6, i brought it in to work today to help my boss recover his external HD. We tried to boot from the cd on a Dell optiplex 745. The Press any key to boot from Cd came up, then the "pre-spinrite info" was displayed and said Initdisk at the bottom. It didnt make it to the spinrite user interface it just froze there. Is there any known reason for this issue? I brought the disk back home and tried it and it worked on the first try!

Any help would be great
Thank you!

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by rob miners

Is SpinRite compatible with USB and Firewire devices?

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. If you have the ability to temporarily relocate the IDE drive inside of the external enclosure to a PC? plugging it directly into the motherboard's controller ? SpinRite will be able to operate at the drive's highest possible performance.

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by snuffy09

Thanks for the info, but im mainly wondering why the user interface of Spinrite didnt even load? Even with the external drive disconnected it didnt load.

by rob miners

available for SpinRite 6 or for FreeDos.

It sounds like Initdisk isn't initialising the Drive. Try configuring in "Legacy" or "Compatibility" mode one or more of your SATA drives.

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by mevans7

I had the same problem. Booting SpinRite off of a CD and the text hangs just after InitDisk. In the BIOS, I changed the SATA mode from AHCI to ATA. Saved, then rebooted, and SprinRite booted to the application. This was on a Dell Inspiron laptop vintage 2010.

by clarke.hackworth

Thank you. I had the same issue on a Dell Inspiron laptop of about the same era. Switching the sata mode worked, thanks

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