John Bartow
john at winhaven.net
Sat Apr 30 13:21:08 CDT 2011
Just an FYI: Spinrite doesn't "remove" anything, or maybe more appropriately, does its best not to remove anything (nothing is perfect ;-) It is strictly a surface analysis/repair tool. If there is a sector marked as bad that isn't, Spinrite will test the crap out of it and mark it good if it really is. Since Spinrite runs under its own OS and no longer runs within as OS, nothing can prevent it from doing so. -----Original Message----- Then there are some really deep bugs. Some malware can actually place itself on a hard drive and mark its position as a bad track so it can never be scanned or removed and all it needs is one of its' components to access it directly...not even spinwrite will remove it. You can try some daring tactics like making a file image of the computer on to a portable hard drive, doing a full re-format of the drive, installing a fresh copy of windows and restoring the file image. It has its risks but it will get most everything that is hidden in drive tracks and boot sectors. http://www.runtime.org/driveimage-xml.htm