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SpinRite was originally written as a hard drive interleave tool. [3] At the time SpinRite was designed, hard drives often had a defect list printed on the nameplate, listing known bad sectors discovered at the factory. In changing the drive's interleave, SpinRite needed to be able to remap these physical defects into different logical sectors.
SpinRite, a hard disk scanning and data recovery utility first released in 1988. [30] As of January 2019 the current version was 6.0, [31] which was first released in 2004. [32] SpinRite is a commercial product, costing US$89 as of July 2021. [31] Gibson's work on SpinRite has led to him being considered an expert on hard drive failure. [33]
Anyway GRC is developing update for it, version 6.1, which will do a full and complete catch up to all that changed from 2004 up to date of release. even a bit outated, spinrite does good job, where other modern programs fail and give up in smoke. i'm direct witness to all this, i used many commercial fruitless money wasters, but only spinrite ...
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In Windows 10, the version number leaped to 10.0 [29] and subsequent updates to the OS only incremented build number and update build revision (UBR) number. The successor of Windows 10, Windows 11, was released on October 5, 2021. Despite being named "11", the new Windows release didn't bump its major version number to 11.
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FreeDOS 1.1, released on 2 January 2012, [12] is available for download as a CD-ROM image: a limited install disc that only contains the kernel and basic applications, and a full disc that contains many more applications (games, networking, development, etc.), not available as of November 2011 but with a newer, fuller 1.2. [13]
Soft updates are manually enabled or disabled during file system creation with an option to the newfs command. [2] They can be disabled or enabled anytime thereafter with an option to the tunefs command. [3] FreeBSD 9.0 introduced a journaling supplement to soft updates for the purpose of eliminating a background fsck for garbage collection ...