SpinRite Alternatives

SpinRite is described as 'computer software program for scanning magnetic data storage devices such as hard disks, recovering data from them and refreshing their surfaces' and is an app in the os & utilities category. There are six alternatives to SpinRite for Windows and MS-DOS. The best SpinRite alternative is Victoria, which is free. Other great apps like SpinRite are HDD Regenerator, MHDD, HDAT2 and DRevitalize.

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SpinRite

Paid • Proprietary
File Recovery Tool

SpinRite is a computer software program for scanning magnetic data storage devices such as hard disks, recovering data from...

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Victoria
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Free • Proprietary
Hard Disk Diagnostic Tool
Windows
23 Victoria alternatives
Victoria is a small application designed to assess performance, test and perform minor repairs to your IDE drive and SATA HDD. It's designed primarily for HDD repairmen in stationary conditions and is not intended to test the system hard drive.
- - Victoria is the most popular Windows alternative to SpinRite.
- - Victoria is the most popular free alternative to SpinRite.
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Victoria Features
1. PortableVictoria can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Bad sectors reallocation
Hardware Monitoring
Read latency benchmark per drive offset
Comments about Victoria as a Alternative to SpinRite
Most users think Victoria is a great SpinRite alternative.
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It tries to recover bad sector and reads smart data It is faster than SpinRite and gives you an option to select part of the drive that you wish to scan or repair
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HDD Regenerator
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Paid • Proprietary
Windows
8 HDD Regenerator alternatives
The HDD Regenerator can repair damaged hard disks without affecting or changing existing data. As a result, previously unreadable and inaccessible information is restored.
- - HDD Regenerator is the most popular commercial alternative to SpinRite.
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HDD Regenerator Features
1. PortableHDD Regenerator can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Discontinued
The program is no longer updated since 2011, but it supports Windows 10 and can be still bought from the official website.

Opinions about HDD Regenerator as a Alternative to SpinRite
Most users think HDD Regenerator is a great SpinRite alternative.
MHDD
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Free • Proprietary
Hard Disk Diagnostic Tool
Windows
22 MHDD alternatives
MHDD is the most popular freeware program for low-level HDD diagnostics.

MHDD supports these interfaces: IDE, Serial ATA, SCSI. Also there is a possibility to access an USB storage, there are drivers for emulation (USB->SCSI).

This software can make precise diagnostic of the.
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MHDD Features
1. PortableMHDD can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Hardware Diagnostics
Hardware Monitoring
Discontinued
Last version 4.6 was released in 2005. See http://hddguru.com/software/2005.10.02-MHDD/mhdd_changelog.en.html

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Most users think MHDD is a great SpinRite alternative.
HDAT2
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Free • Proprietary
Hard Disk Diagnostic Tool
Windows
20 HDAT2 alternatives
HDAT2 is program for test or diagnostics of ATA/ATAPI/SATA, SSD, USB and SCSI devices.
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HDAT2 Features
Hardware Monitoring
DRevitalize
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Paid • Proprietary
File Recovery Tool
Windows
MS-DOS
6 DRevitalize alternatives
DRevitalize is a program that repairs bad sectors (physical defects) on popular magnetic media (hard drives and also floppy drives to some extent) by generating a special sequence of high and low signals around the physically damaged area.
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DiskFresh
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Free Personal • Proprietary
Windows
3 DiskFresh alternatives
DiskFresh is a simple yet powerful tool that can refresh your hard disk signal without changing its data by reading and writing each sector and hence making your disk more reliable for storage. It also informs you if there are any damaged/bad sectors so you know the right...
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DiskFresh Features
Sector rewrite
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Most users think DiskFresh is a great SpinRite alternative.