The answer to your question is Yes. Information is located here under the first question. http://www.grc.com/sr/faq.htm ... According to (Steve maker of SpinRite) you need to run the application you downloaded which will prompt you to make a spinrite bootable media (CD-R, or in your case USB). If you don't have that, I'd follow up with the second Question which is how to download it again. If really have to wing it... It says that his software boots via FreeDOS so in theory if you formated the USB drive so it was bootable (DOS Command "Formate driveLetter: /s" or used the "Sys driveLetter:" command) and then copied the CD-R's files over (assuming at least you have a CD-R with the program) that might work I'm assuming the Your XP/dos files would initilize the FreeDOS command.com which in turn would start spinrite). :)
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The answer to your question is Yes. Information is located here under the first question. http://www.grc.com/sr/faq.htm ... According to (Steve maker of SpinRite) you need to run the application you downloaded which will prompt you to make a spinrite bootable media (CD-R, or in your case USB). If you don't have that, I'd follow up with the second Question which is how to download it again. If really have to wing it... It says that his software boots via FreeDOS so in theory if you formated the USB drive so it was bootable (DOS Command "Formate driveLetter: /s" or used the "Sys driveLetter:" command) and then copied the CD-R's files over (assuming at least you have a CD-R with the program) that might work I'm assuming the Your XP/dos files would initilize the FreeDOS command.com which in turn would start spinrite). :)


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