- ValiDrive - GRC Public Forums
Hi Steve, A question re: ValiDrive I downloaded v0 6 3 this morning Seems to work OK In the process of characterizing the inserted USB drive, can you also characterize the USB port into which it is plugged? For instance, let the user know if it's USB 2 3 etc?
- validrive says the drive is great, but its actually not.
i have a no name 64gb drive that shows up in validrive as actually full spec however when i go to write too it, it really dosnt want to write go to delete, fails when i check the drive via windows properties, it says 10gb is used, but when i look at the properties of the files on it
- Validrive and SSD - GRC Public Forums
ValiDrive tests a drive, not a partition, by sampling reading and writing across the drive, not everything, just samples, and has been tricked by some fake drive's savvy programming Run both H2testw and ValiDrive on the Fanxiang 4TB and let us know what you find Thanks
- New to ValiDrive - GRC Public Forums
I just started using ValiDrive and it's a great little tool! My question is on the report screen Is there anything on that screen that I should look for that basically says "you should run SpinRite on this USB drive"?
- Launching Validrive - GRC Public Forums
I downloaded ValiDrive onto my home desktop PC (Win 10 22H2, Firefox) by clicking "Download Now" here It appears as validrive exe (95 KB) in the target folder on my PC When I double-click that file, a box pops up saying the usual Microsoft nonsense about it not being from their store I
- Have scammers finally circumvented ValiDrives tests
Yes, ValiDrive is a quick miracle, like a mini-SpinRite 6 1 Level 5 under Windows, but only for 576 'regions' SpinRite 6 1 under DOS, and a variety of programs under Windows, such as HDDScan and h2testw, are so much more thorough, checking millions of 'regions' Sorry you had to pay your way into the fake owner's club
- ValiDrive - GRC Public Forums
To obtain direct, low-level access to a system's mass storage drives, SpinRite runs under a GRC-customized version of FreeDOS which has been modified to add compatibility with all file systems In order to run SpinRite it must first be possible to boot FreeDOS GRC's “BootAble” freeware allows anyone to easily create BIOS-bootable media in order to workout and confirm the details of
- ValiDrive confirmed false capacity, now I want clean and use the drive . . .
The results were exactly as expected, as ValiDrive confirmed it was really a much smaller capacity In previous experiences with this fake capacity issue (on Micro SD cards), I was able to use DISKPART -clean all to clear sectors of programming and utilize the device for proper (yet mislabeled) storage
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