<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><HTML><FONT SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10>Julian<BR>
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Re Spinrite, I don’t know of an alternative. <BR>
Four licences for a small firm is excessive<BR>
Some time ago I did the decent thing and bought a licence for our business and one for myself (for the old version) since we have two (and a half) sites. <BR>
When I get further into Linux I may upgrade my copy if I do I’ll let you know.<BR>
Does your firm know other small local IT firms that use Linux such that you could join together and share the burden for one company to get the licences. This firm could then kindly test drives for the rest of you.<BR>
Or could one of you at Q-par Angus buy a copy of SpinRite for personal use and buy suspect drives from your firm then sell them back fixed?<BR>
An alternative would be to spend a little on extra hard drives and RAID etc. mirroring / back-up for important boxes.<BR>
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Regards, Edward</FONT></HTML>