Just say no to Spinrite for a modern drive. Modern drives have sophisticated error correction capability, which the drives in Spinrite's heyday lacked. SpinRite is a fantastic tool for repairing and maintaining hard drives, and I am proud to say that its purchase price has been more than recouped on drives that it has brought back into service that would otherwise have needed replacing Running it on an Intel Mac hasn’t been possible with version 6.0. Old drives from when Spinrite was great had a stepper motor with fixed mechanic detents for each track. In today's drives, head positioning is dynamic, using servo (track location) data recorded onto the platters. Really old versions used have some extra functions just for old drives, which could have issues with consistency of how data was written, mostly due to temperature and/or granularity of head positioning. The "maintenance" aspect of its operation is largely silly on modern drives. How can you even call it recovery if you aren't writing your data to another drive? If your kitchen catches fire, do you want to get out of the house or just go hang out in the living room? Hard drives in the XP era were smaller in data capacity by a degree of magnitude and slower in operation than todays HDDs. It isn't good for recovery for a multitude of reasons, biggest of which is that it puts the hard to read data back down on the dying drive. It is a DOS 32-bit program, designed for IDE & SCSI hard drives, that I think was last updated in 2004 by author Steve Gibson, to v6.0 in order to access NTFS drives. Spinrite is a good tool for testing, but nothing else now.
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