Guest FlaBill Posted August 5, 2008 Posted August 5, 2008 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 Posted August 5, 2008 Posted August 5, 2008 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 Posted August 5, 2008 Posted August 5, 2008 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 news:144b01ef-c4dd-43ac-a834-9289d933dbee@y38g2000hsy.googlegroups.com... > 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
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