

As a result, it can manipulate data at lower levels than can other maintenance programs such as ScanDisk, enabling it to perform more-rigorous maintenance, to predict failures, and even to recover data from badly damaged drives.

Like its predecessors, it has the unique ability to access the surface of a hard drive (or other magnetic drive) without engaging the OS.

Version 6, the venerable application's first overhaul since 1998, comes through with improved functionality and much-needed support for the NTFS file system: It finally works with Windows XP. So your hard drive bit the dust before you got around to creating that backup you've been putting off for, oh, a year or so? Download a copy of Gibson Research's SpinRite 6 drive recovery and maintenance software, and it might be able to bring your data back from the brink.
