Determining when hard drive is kaput

[Guest FlaBill]

So many problems posted here seem to revolve around hard drives that

go bad.

I wonder if there is a step by step recipe for determining that the

drive is no longer usable.

What say you?

 

Bill

[Guest Ghostrider]

Re: Determining when hard drive is kaput

 

 

FlaBill wrote:

> So many problems posted here seem to revolve around hard drives that

> go bad.

> I wonder if there is a step by step recipe for determining that the

> drive is no longer usable.

> What say you?

>

> Bill

 

Sure. Be suspicious of the hard drive all of the time. (Of course,

this type of thinking dates back to the days when hard drives were

spinning platters mounted in floor-standing consoles, where a speck

of dust will wreck it.) More seriously, a hard drive is no longer

usable when it can no longer be trusted. A second failure or physical

corruption is enough reason to declare it so.

[Guest JS]

Re: Determining when hard drive is kaput

 

Download and run the appropriate Disk Diagnostic Utility

for your hard drive:

 

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/support/downloads/seatools

 

Maxtor (Now Seagate SeaTools)

http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?locale=en-US&name=SeaTools&vgnextoid=720bd20cacdec010VgnVCM100000dd04090aRCRD

 

Fujitsu's Utilities

http://www.fujitsu.com/us/services/computing/storage/hdd/support/utilities.html

 

Samsung's Disk manager software

http://www.samsung.com/Products/HardDiskDrive/utilities/shdiag.htm

 

Hitachi's Drive Fitness Test software

http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm#DFT

 

JS

http://www.pagestart.com

 

 

"FlaBill" <WFWPics@gmail.com> wrote in message

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> So many problems posted here seem to revolve around hard drives that

> go bad.

> I wonder if there is a step by step recipe for determining that the

> drive is no longer usable.

> What say you?

>

> Bill