Oldie and newly Goodie

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September 27, 2024
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Some of you may have heard of Steve Gibson and the programs he sells at grc.com

At one time I bought a program to defrag my platter drive(s) which I stopped using when I switched to SSD... turns out that Steve has been working on updating his program to add 'refreshing' the information stored in an SSD... and all these years later I received a notice of a free upgrade

I have had the same email address for over 20 years... and that is a good thing

The email notice... 'Back in 2005, someone at this email address purchased SpinRite v6.0' with download instructions

Haven't used it yet (need to read the user manual I saved as a PDF) but have the download and created a bootable CD with the program for when I'm ready to boot onto the CD (currently runs on a custom 'DOS like' operating system)

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John T Smith

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Looks like I need to wait for version 7... I made a boot CD and a boot USB flash drive... neither works on my computer

Grc support said that a UEFI bios will not boot from a DOS flash drive or CD... but that the next version will someday (date unknown) be able to boot on a computer like mine since it will have a different operating system that is compatible with my bios

I know that my computer will boot from a flash drive since the backup program I use http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/image-for-linux.htm creates a Linux flash drive that my UEFI bios does support

Leslie Moak Murray

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I understood the words "and" and "it."

John T Smith

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