Copying A Disk

[Pete Holsberg]

Jason Crain has written on 7/12/2008 6:31 PM:
> Pete Holsberg wrote:
>   
>> So why is Spinrite able to see the drive when Winders and Linux cannot??
>>     
>
> The guy that wrote SpinRite did it all in assembly and probably wrote 
> his own drivers.  It may just be able to recover from some errors that 
> Windows and Linux give up on.

I don't think the programming language makes any difference. Spinrite 
sees and can access the drive; the tools for the OSes cannot.