Hi All,

Could you recommend a 3rd party hard disk diagnostic tool?

Thanks,

Joe

JoeP wrote:
hard drives even come with floppies/CD's now with the tools on them.
I'd go for that first.

JoeP wrote:
great job of finding potential problems with a disk and sometimes
repairing them. It is not free but the cost is trivial to the savings
if it prevents the loss of data.
The last time I needed it I had a boot drive suddenly unusable due to a
data error. I could not even Ghost the drive to a new one. I ran
SpinRite on the drive and Ghost was able to copy the drive perfectly and
a mess was prevented.

Try HD Tune, provides drive info and has an option to test your drive.
http://www.hdtune.com/
Also SpeedFan has an online analysis feature for hard drives.
http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php

Manufacture's Tools:
Western Digital's Data LifeGuard Diagnostics
http://support.wdc.com/download/?cxml=n&pid=999&swid=3
Seagate's SeaTools
http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/sup...loads/seatools
Maxtor (Now Seagate SeaTools)
http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.js...00dd04090aRCRD
Fujitsu's Utilities
http://www.fujitsu.com/us/services/c...utilities.html
Samsung's Disk manager software
http://www.samsung.com/Products/Hard...ies/shdiag.htm
Hitachi's Drive Fitness Test software
http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm#DFT

JS

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Correct!!!


Get the diagnostic from the mfg of your HD

Thanks for all the answers.

You're welcome.

JS

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