Since I mentioned that and it's relevant to a couple of recent posts, I'll mention that I ran Spinrite (from a USB stick with MS-DOS, not FreeDOS) just this past week on a failing 10-year-old 1.5TB Seagate drive, and it completed successfully in only a few hours. I bought Spinrite many years ago and have had some success with it, and several miserable failures due to the infamous Divide-by-Zero redscreen crashes. This likely falls under UI.ġ) I appreciate this thread for the useful information about accessing Steve's POC utilities in the newsgroup.Ģ) As is the case of DaleFR, I'm now at an age where I wonder if I have enough remaining time to see this project through to its fruition. Is this something to be changed in SR6.1? Previously there has been talk of no UI changes being planned. This is not a big deal, or a big problem. I would expect to see something like 'no data' of 'fatal error' in the raw view. That sector is unreadable (I can see DynaStat getting nothing out of that sector on a different screen). What I see 'raw' is not from that sector shown down below. My observation is that the view of the raw data is desynchronized with sector number. So SR is somehow progressing, but not updating the RAW DATA display. But on the bottom of the screen, I can observe 'Operating Location' - 'SECTR' is being changed. This data is not being changed once we hit the bad sectors - it is stuck at showing of what I suppose is the last raw data that got read. I look at the Real-Time Activities screen with 'Raw Data Snapshot'. I am having a situation in which the drive has issues with some sectors.

I want to ask if there are any changes coming up in SR6.1 when it comes to the 'Real-Time Activities' screen.

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