Then shutdown and restart the target system, booting it with the SpinRite bootable media to start the FreeDOS operating system which will automatically run SpinRite under FreeDOS. after you download the SpinRite.exe program, run it under Windows to have it create a bootable media format of your choice. Then, when the media prepared by the Windows-side of SpinRite is booted, the FreeDOS operating system included within SpinRite will boot, and it will, in turn, start SpinRite to begin performing data recovery, maintenance, and repair.

You can choose to create a self-booting floppy diskette, a bootable CD-R ISO image file, or to prepare a USB flash drive or other bootable device for booting. It should first be run under Windows to choose and create some form of bootable media. SpinRite is a single program file that offers completely different services when it is run under Windows or DOS.

I purchased and downloaded the SpinRite program file. Note: See the SATA knowledgebase article for specific information about SpinRite v6.0's operation with SATA drives and controllers