Mr. Gibson is pretty adamant that SpinRite should not be run w/any memory resident software, which includes screenreaders. On 10/22/15, Anatoliy Shudrya wrote:

Is it to recover files from corrupted HDD or to just check for errors?

I've used other open source tool to recover files from corrupted partition with great success.

The program is called Testdisk. It's a Linux utility, but they have a package for windows.

Works quite well with jaws and I believe I have had to use jaws curser to navigate in DOS like menu.

Anatoliy

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Has anyone utilized the Spinrite drive check and repair utility? I heard about it from a Security Now podcast and wondered if it has been used by a screen reader user.

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Thanks for the responses. I'm mainly interested in it for checking and fixing disk errors. Testdisk sounds like I would like to look into that. Thanks. -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Anatoliy Shudrya Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2015 5:19 PM To: 'Blind sysadmins list' Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Spinrite drive utility Is it to recover files from corrupted HDD or to just check for errors? I've used other open source tool to recover files from corrupted partition with great success. The program is called Testdisk. It's a Linux utility, but they have a package for windows. Works quite well with jaws and I believe I have had to use jaws curser to navigate in DOS like menu. Anatoliy -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Troy Hergert Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2015 1:29 PM To: Blind system administrators Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Spinrite drive utility Has anyone utilized the Spinrite drive check and repair utility? I heard about it from a Security Now podcast and wondered if it has been used by a screen reader user. _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org https://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2015.0.6173 / Virus Database: 4450/10871 - Release Date: 10/22/15 _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org https://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins

Hi, Obligatory rant about how you *really* shouldn't use Spinrite on drives with errors; much better to grab an image with something like Ddrescue and then perform data recovery on the image with something like Testdisk. Cheers, Ben. On 10/23/15, Katherine Moss wrote:

To my current knowledge, it requires you to be booted into an environment outside of the system, so ultimately, the only way it'd possibly work is via a WinPE environment with speech in it, though not even that if it's its own environment.

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Has anyone utilized the Spinrite drive check and repair utility? I heard about it from a Security Now podcast and wondered if it has been used by a screen reader user.

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