Recent content by peterblaise

Yes "new", ValiDrive was reviewed by Tom's Hardware on the day of public release, 2023-10-07. The 'fake finder' tools out there for years that you are thinking of often take a long time and some are destructive. ValiDrive is quick and non-destructive, and a stepping stone in the development of...

There are MANY 'fake finder' tools out there for years, most take a long time and some are destructive. ValiDrive is quick and non-destructive, and a stepping stone in the development of SpinRite to understand fake - and faulty and failing - drives. Others have said that ValiDrive runs on a...

I wonder how it fares on fake testing? Steve Gibson just programmed up a free quick test: https://www.grc.com/dev/validrive/ I also use a simple NTFS quick format, it usually fails immediately on fake drives. Free h2testw is great but time-consuming, precise, though. What fake tests are...

Both SpinRite and HDD Regenerator are useful for making some iffy drives useful again, but seldom are SpinRite and HDD Regenerator the best tools for recovering and copying out data - neither of these programs have ANY copy-out features, that's not what they do. Copy out data without writing to...

I wanna know what "software" Google/Seagate use to fix bad drives - SeaToos or something factory-level low-level reformat? I presume they empty the bad drive first so that when repairs are complete, it's blank, and does not contain old data that might cause Google's overall storage to have old...

. Note that 64-bit versions are CALLED by the 32-bit application nonetheless, so ALL CCleaner v5.33 installations -- 64-bit as well as 32-bit -- are suspect. .