If you try it, leave a comment on how it worked or not.
I haven’t tried to do this on a Mac with Apple Silicon, e.g. : These instructions were written for Intel-based Macs.
If you need to use it on your internal boot drive, you will either have to boot from another drive or connect your Mac to another Mac in target disk mode and run SpinRite from the other Mac. However, you must not try to use SpinRite on your system boot drive (or any mounted drive). This is better than the usual situation where a physical Windows machine is dedicated to running SpinRite for the duration. The good news is that you can continue to use your Mac while SpinRite, in a virtual machine, works on a hard drive. However, this does not prevent SpinRite from recovering bad sectors, or refreshing marginal ones. aware features of SpinRite will not work in the virtual machine environment we will use on the Mac. SpinRite can operate on internal and external drives, including USB drives. Steve Gibson says he plans to release updated versions 6.1 (much faster and supports larger drives) and 7 (with support for the Mac), but it could be a while. SpinRite hasn’t been updated by its author since 2004. SpinRite 6.0 can’t handle drives larger than 2 TB at all. If the drive has bad sectors, or you use level 4, it will take much longer. A full scan on level 2 of a 1 TB drive with no bad sectors took 35 hours and 46 minutes. SpinRite 6.0 is glacially slow on today’s large hard drives. There are some limitations to SpinRite and to running it on the Mac. I don’t want you to go through this process with false expectations. Here is my attempt to write a coherent single set of instructions for SpinRite on the Mac. I had to hunt around multiple web sites to find bits and pieces of the instructions. The other instructions I found on the web for SpinRite on the Mac were variously outdated, contained bad links or were overly complicated. There is really nothing comparable to it for the Macintosh, especially in its ability to recover data from corrupted hard drives. SpinRite is a hard drive recovery utility intended to run stand-alone on Windows machines. If you are reading this, you probably know why you want to run SpinRite.
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