Joe I wholeheartedly have to agree and despite the fact that I regularly replace drives and make a profit I am not making a profit from my viewpoinjt to this person - I just think it's dumb to try to fix something with software when the hardware is going to eventual crap. -----Original Message----- From: computertalkshop-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:computertalkshop-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Cuffy10@xxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 10:14 AM To: computertalkshop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [CTS] Re: Spinrite In a message dated 6/10/04 1:53:50 AM Pacific Daylight Time, Madrachod@xxxxxxx writes: In a message dated 6/10/2004 3:57:57 AM Eastern Daylight Time, vbalbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes: If it saves your drive and adds life to it, then it's worth the purchace price. It sounds as if you're a candidate for it. Very possibly, I have nearly 361000 bad sectors at last check. It was about half that a few months ago, then all of a sudden, about 3 months ago, I ran Scandisc (usually every sunday after I get off line, along with AVG and Defrag) and I had double the amount bad. Dale For the $89 price of Spinrite you can buy a 60gig Maxtor or if you prefer Hitachi has an 80gig. XXCopy will clone your current drive to a new one for free. Would somebody be so kind as to explain why anyone would even consider buying Spinrite to repair a drive that hasn't failed yet instead of replacing the failing drive with a new one and still having pocket change when finished ???????? Maxtor - - MAXTOR 6Y060M0 DIAMONDMAX PLUS 9 60GB HARD DRIVE SERIAL ATA,8MB 7200RPM OEM,SATA-150 HD,WARRANTY DIR Details: -THE 7200 RPM DIAMONDMAX PLUS 9 HARD DRIVE IS YOUR SOLUTION FOR PERFORMANCE PCS WITH DATA-INTENSIVE APPLICATIONS SUC Part - MAXTOR 6Y060M0 6Y060M0 HDMA6Y060M0 Updated - 6/1, 6:37 PM Total - $86.77 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't. -- Pete Seeger"