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Spinrite is made be steve gibson with GRC.com . It is written in assembly language and is a very small program. Will fit on a floppy disk. When you buy and download the program you can launch it from disk you have the option to make a bootable floppy and/or CD img. You will notice that your name is imbeded in the licsen agrement. Make sure you save your order number, it is used for upgrades. When you boot you hit cr a couple of times then you have options 2 (recovery) or 4 (maintance). Then you select the drive to check. Works with IDE or SATA. If it detects a problem during maintance it auto changes to recovery mode, then switchs back. The only problems is some drive setups seam to take a extremely long time to check. Like I said earlier it took 22hr to scan my 400gig HD.