Comments on: Running Spinrite http://www.davecolorado.com/index.php/running-spinrite/ Dave Dugdale's Personal Blog Sat, 07 Jan 2012 01:28:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: o-o http://www.davecolorado.com/index.php/running-spinrite/comment-page-1/#comment-1502 o-o Sat, 25 Sep 2010 23:42:00 +0000 http://www.davecolorado.com/?p=872#comment-1502 Spinrite may be very helpful in some cases but in others in may definitively kill your already damaged HDD. Out of my own (bad) experience I would strongly advise to first try to copy or backup the disk data **before** to use Spinrite! With my USB attached external 1.5GB Elements HDD I randomly get the Division Overflow Error. Besides the speed is very slow (USB2) since I would have to wait about 270 hours for Level 4/5. That's beyond what is acceptable IMO especially because during that time I cannot use the PC anymore for any other task!! I tried to use a windows boot disk but the Division Overflow Error remains anyway! As usual it's never the own piece of software, always the one from the others... ;) Thanks Dave for passing on the hint though. It may work for others (with different Drives, BIOS etc.) Spinrite may be very helpful in some cases but in others in may definitively kill your already damaged HDD. Out of my own (bad) experience I would strongly advise to first try to copy or backup the disk data **before** to use Spinrite!

With my USB attached external 1.5GB Elements HDD I randomly get the Division Overflow Error. Besides the speed is very slow (USB2) since I would have to wait about 270 hours for Level 4/5. That’s beyond what is acceptable IMO especially because during that time I cannot use the PC anymore for any other task!!

I tried to use a windows boot disk but the Division Overflow Error remains anyway! As usual it’s never the own piece of software, always the one from the others… ;)

Thanks Dave for passing on the hint though. It may work for others (with different Drives, BIOS etc.)

]]> By: Dave Dugdale http://www.davecolorado.com/index.php/running-spinrite/comment-page-1/#comment-1428 Dave Dugdale Tue, 11 May 2010 22:07:41 +0000 http://www.davecolorado.com/?p=872#comment-1428 Thanks, I will have to try that. Thanks, I will have to try that.

]]> By: Jeremy Miner http://www.davecolorado.com/index.php/running-spinrite/comment-page-1/#comment-1427 Jeremy Miner Tue, 11 May 2010 22:05:53 +0000 http://www.davecolorado.com/?p=872#comment-1427 Hi everyone, I was running into this same problem. I went into the BIOS and changed the SATA settings. Sometimes it is set to some kind of RAID controller. Turning that off or changing it to another setting has worked for me. Hi everyone,

I was running into this same problem. I went into the BIOS and changed the SATA settings. Sometimes it is set to some kind of RAID controller. Turning that off or changing it to another setting has worked for me.

]]> By: Dave Dugdale http://www.davecolorado.com/index.php/running-spinrite/comment-page-1/#comment-1317 Dave Dugdale Sat, 16 Jan 2010 15:38:08 +0000 http://www.davecolorado.com/?p=872#comment-1317 No, I never figured out why. No, I never figured out why.

]]> By: gunner04 http://www.davecolorado.com/index.php/running-spinrite/comment-page-1/#comment-1316 gunner04 Fri, 15 Jan 2010 23:55:04 +0000 http://www.davecolorado.com/?p=872#comment-1316 did you ever figure out why you got the first initDisk error.. I am getting the same error but i do not have another machine that I can run it on. did you ever figure out why you got the first initDisk error.. I am getting the same error but i do not have another machine that I can run it on.

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