Spinrite Hangs at Initdisk

Martinrub · Apr 24, 2014

I ran Spinrite from the boot cd on my 3 year-old Vaio on both its new ssd and its original hard drive. On both occasions it hangs at Initdisk. The only thing you can change in the BIOS is CPU C3/C6 stuff, Intel Virtualization, boot sequence and passwords. No SATA/IDE stuff. There's no usb in the machine when I run Spinrite, either. So I reckon I have wasted a load of money on something that, in its present state, just can't work on my laptop.

Perhaps I should not have listened to the gushing testimonials, but if any one has any suggestions as to what I might be doing wrong, I'd be most grateful.

TyrOd · Apr 24, 2014

Martinrub :

Spinrite is a good hard drive maintenance program and nothing else. What are you trying to use it for on and why would you use it on an SSD?

Martinrub · Apr 25, 2014

TyrOd :

Good point; I should have explained. I only tired it on the ssd after I removed the old hard drive from the bay just in case the problem was disk specific. I bought Spinrite in order to 'maintain' the 2 or 3l old laptop drives I have as well as an external hard drive and also to check my brother's 2 Vaio laptops, which are now quite a few years old.

I will check and, if it's possible to return it, I think that's what I'll do.

Thanks for all the advice and comments. I do appreciate the help.

Martin

Martinrub · Apr 25, 2014

anonymous1 :

Done. I've asked for a refund detailing the problem and the steps I took to try to get it to work. Perhaps version 6.1, when it appears, will solve the problem. In the meantime I thank you for your sound advice.

Martin

Update: I've already had notification from the Spinrite sales people agreeing to the refund; which is very fair.

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