Spinrite 6.0 on UEFI and an NVMe SSD drive

1 · RvE · Nov. 4, 2022, 5:42 a.m.
Spinrite is a hard drive recovery and maintenande utility written by Steve Gibson from GRC. It is marketed on the Security Now TWiT podcast which I often listen to. I have bought a copy of it and sometimes use it on solid state disks or SD cards. Spinrite 6.0 is written is assembly language and runs on top of MS-DOS or FreeDOS, using the BIOS. UEFI is not supported and neither are NVMe drives. This post will show you how to run Spinrite 6.0 on such a system anyway, using a modern linux live USB ...