Wednesday, January 16, 2019

Spinrite USB Boot Creation

This works . . .
You will still be stuck with Free Dos. Now that the drive is bootable, simply replacing the files with "win98boot" files may work. (I am going to try it)
These files are available here:

Here is an easy stand alone program to test boot your drive within Windows.

Am I a big Spinrite believer? Not really but if your data drive went south before you got the data off, it is worth a try. I just had my data/programs etc. disk giving errors and thought I may need this. I was able to image and replace the drive so 911 canceled for now.

Curl, Wget, Winget & Powershell Install or Download Commands

After the mess I made in previous posts this summary might be useful.     Thanks PatchMyPC, the great and powerful program downloader and up...