Interestingly enough you don't need to read the screen to make spinrite test drives. Whilst it is far from accessible you can get buy with testing drives as follows: Put your spinrite on bootable media. Edit the config.sys so it shells in the command.com instead of spinrite itself. Now from the prompt run something like: spinrite drive 0 level 1 auto exit command-line arguments are in the docs that come with it. drive 0 is the first hard drive bios drive 0X80H. level 1 is the vverify only test level. auto means ask no questions. exit returns you to a dos prompt when done. Your results are stored in spinrite.log careful how you use spinrite, it is possible to cause a failing drive to die completely if you use spinrite on it at too high a test level. I usually check health of drives with smartmontools, get all the data off the disk Ican, then go for spinrite. Regards, Kerry. On 22/05/2014 8:54 PM, Jackie McBride wrote:

It won't. It specifically states it doesn't cooperate w/other resident programs,& that includes screenreaders. Unfortunately, I ended up havin to get my money back simply cuz I couldn't use it.

On 5/21/14, David Mehler<dave.mehler@gmail.com> wrote:

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Hello,

Does anyone have a version of spinrite that will talk? I'm needing to run it on a drive that I'm really hoping is not failing, but the system has been making some unpleasant noises.

Thanks. Dave.

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