Software point update...
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I got an email this morning...
Back in 2005, someone at this email address purchased SpinRite v6.0. UNSUBSCRIBE: If you never wish to receive additional news of SpinRite improvements or “Beyond Recall”, our forthcoming secure drive wiping utility, or any new freeware, PLEASE click here to instantly UNSUBSCRIBE and this email address will never be used again. You may upgrade your copy of SpinRite to v6.1 at no cost. SpinRite has been significantly improved After 20 years, SpinRite 6.0 has been updated to 6.1, and as a licensed owner of 6.0, you are invited to upgrade your copy of SpinRite at no cost.
That's quite a delay between releases and interesting that GRC kept the record of my purchase for so long! Anyway, I tried writing the image to a USB stick, then a CD, but couldn't get either to boot - SpinRite runs a a version of FreeDOS - so dug out my old USB floppy drive and picked up the first floppy disk to come to hand... ...which turned out to be a boot disk for SpinRite 6.0! Of course, I then worked out that the reason things wouldn't boot was the BIOS boot mode (EUFI) setting! FYI... My stack of laptops is in the back of the garage. I still have a large stack of unused writable CDs (and DVDs). I still have a small stack of unused punch cards. I have 2 slide rules. :)
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I got an email this morning...
Back in 2005, someone at this email address purchased SpinRite v6.0. UNSUBSCRIBE: If you never wish to receive additional news of SpinRite improvements or “Beyond Recall”, our forthcoming secure drive wiping utility, or any new freeware, PLEASE click here to instantly UNSUBSCRIBE and this email address will never be used again. You may upgrade your copy of SpinRite to v6.1 at no cost. SpinRite has been significantly improved After 20 years, SpinRite 6.0 has been updated to 6.1, and as a licensed owner of 6.0, you are invited to upgrade your copy of SpinRite at no cost.
That's quite a delay between releases and interesting that GRC kept the record of my purchase for so long! Anyway, I tried writing the image to a USB stick, then a CD, but couldn't get either to boot - SpinRite runs a a version of FreeDOS - so dug out my old USB floppy drive and picked up the first floppy disk to come to hand... ...which turned out to be a boot disk for SpinRite 6.0! Of course, I then worked out that the reason things wouldn't boot was the BIOS boot mode (EUFI) setting! FYI... My stack of laptops is in the back of the garage. I still have a large stack of unused writable CDs (and DVDs). I still have a small stack of unused punch cards. I have 2 slide rules. :)
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I got an email this morning...
Back in 2005, someone at this email address purchased SpinRite v6.0. UNSUBSCRIBE: If you never wish to receive additional news of SpinRite improvements or “Beyond Recall”, our forthcoming secure drive wiping utility, or any new freeware, PLEASE click here to instantly UNSUBSCRIBE and this email address will never be used again. You may upgrade your copy of SpinRite to v6.1 at no cost. SpinRite has been significantly improved After 20 years, SpinRite 6.0 has been updated to 6.1, and as a licensed owner of 6.0, you are invited to upgrade your copy of SpinRite at no cost.
That's quite a delay between releases and interesting that GRC kept the record of my purchase for so long! Anyway, I tried writing the image to a USB stick, then a CD, but couldn't get either to boot - SpinRite runs a a version of FreeDOS - so dug out my old USB floppy drive and picked up the first floppy disk to come to hand... ...which turned out to be a boot disk for SpinRite 6.0! Of course, I then worked out that the reason things wouldn't boot was the BIOS boot mode (EUFI) setting! FYI... My stack of laptops is in the back of the garage. I still have a large stack of unused writable CDs (and DVDs). I still have a small stack of unused punch cards. I have 2 slide rules. :)
Steve Gibson (of GRC, and author of SpinRite) has often mentioned on his weekly podcast ([Security Now](https://twit.tv/shows/security-now)) that even though it's been 20 years, he doesn't feel justified to ask existing customers to purchase an upgrade - no matter how far back they go. And he actually respects unsubscribe requests. Anyone who listens to his podcast would immediately realize he's a hardcore developer at heart, not marketing or sales. I give him a lot of kudos for that. And even though he calls it a point upgrade, it's essentially a full rewrite, primarily to take advantage of disk technologies that have evolved over those last 20+ years. I haven't tried it myself, but based on the feedback he's been relaying on his podcast, people are seeing tremendous improvements in processing time, which was needed given that today's drives are so much larger than they used to be. Unrelated: This week's podcast is #993 (it's in its...18th year?) Turns out security is a big topic, and he's not about to run out of material to discuss. I never miss an occasion to say that the technically-minded who cares about cybersecurity (as much I hate using the term "cyber"-anything) would do well to listen to his podcast. Very informative, he's a stickler for accuracy, doesn't go for the attention-grabbing headlines and brings it down to earth. All my personal opinion.
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I got an email this morning...
Back in 2005, someone at this email address purchased SpinRite v6.0. UNSUBSCRIBE: If you never wish to receive additional news of SpinRite improvements or “Beyond Recall”, our forthcoming secure drive wiping utility, or any new freeware, PLEASE click here to instantly UNSUBSCRIBE and this email address will never be used again. You may upgrade your copy of SpinRite to v6.1 at no cost. SpinRite has been significantly improved After 20 years, SpinRite 6.0 has been updated to 6.1, and as a licensed owner of 6.0, you are invited to upgrade your copy of SpinRite at no cost.
That's quite a delay between releases and interesting that GRC kept the record of my purchase for so long! Anyway, I tried writing the image to a USB stick, then a CD, but couldn't get either to boot - SpinRite runs a a version of FreeDOS - so dug out my old USB floppy drive and picked up the first floppy disk to come to hand... ...which turned out to be a boot disk for SpinRite 6.0! Of course, I then worked out that the reason things wouldn't boot was the BIOS boot mode (EUFI) setting! FYI... My stack of laptops is in the back of the garage. I still have a large stack of unused writable CDs (and DVDs). I still have a small stack of unused punch cards. I have 2 slide rules. :)
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I got an email this morning...
Back in 2005, someone at this email address purchased SpinRite v6.0. UNSUBSCRIBE: If you never wish to receive additional news of SpinRite improvements or “Beyond Recall”, our forthcoming secure drive wiping utility, or any new freeware, PLEASE click here to instantly UNSUBSCRIBE and this email address will never be used again. You may upgrade your copy of SpinRite to v6.1 at no cost. SpinRite has been significantly improved After 20 years, SpinRite 6.0 has been updated to 6.1, and as a licensed owner of 6.0, you are invited to upgrade your copy of SpinRite at no cost.
That's quite a delay between releases and interesting that GRC kept the record of my purchase for so long! Anyway, I tried writing the image to a USB stick, then a CD, but couldn't get either to boot - SpinRite runs a a version of FreeDOS - so dug out my old USB floppy drive and picked up the first floppy disk to come to hand... ...which turned out to be a boot disk for SpinRite 6.0! Of course, I then worked out that the reason things wouldn't boot was the BIOS boot mode (EUFI) setting! FYI... My stack of laptops is in the back of the garage. I still have a large stack of unused writable CDs (and DVDs). I still have a small stack of unused punch cards. I have 2 slide rules. :)
StarNamer@work wrote:
I have 2 slide rules.
All these recent posts mentioning slide rules makes me wonder whether or not my father still has the one I remember from my youth.
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I got an email this morning...
Back in 2005, someone at this email address purchased SpinRite v6.0. UNSUBSCRIBE: If you never wish to receive additional news of SpinRite improvements or “Beyond Recall”, our forthcoming secure drive wiping utility, or any new freeware, PLEASE click here to instantly UNSUBSCRIBE and this email address will never be used again. You may upgrade your copy of SpinRite to v6.1 at no cost. SpinRite has been significantly improved After 20 years, SpinRite 6.0 has been updated to 6.1, and as a licensed owner of 6.0, you are invited to upgrade your copy of SpinRite at no cost.
That's quite a delay between releases and interesting that GRC kept the record of my purchase for so long! Anyway, I tried writing the image to a USB stick, then a CD, but couldn't get either to boot - SpinRite runs a a version of FreeDOS - so dug out my old USB floppy drive and picked up the first floppy disk to come to hand... ...which turned out to be a boot disk for SpinRite 6.0! Of course, I then worked out that the reason things wouldn't boot was the BIOS boot mode (EUFI) setting! FYI... My stack of laptops is in the back of the garage. I still have a large stack of unused writable CDs (and DVDs). I still have a small stack of unused punch cards. I have 2 slide rules. :)