Hard disk diagnostic tool

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JoeP said:
Hi All,

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

Thanks,

Joe
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IIRC every disk manufacturer has one. Look on their websites. Most
hard drives even come with floppies/CD's now with the tools on them.
I'd go for that first.
 
JoeP said:
Hi All,

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

Thanks,

Joe
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I have used SpinRite since its release about 20 years ago and it does a
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/support/downloads/seatools
Maxtor (Now Seagate SeaTools)
http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.j...toid=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
 
Big Al said:
IIRC every disk manufacturer has one. Look on their websites. Most
hard drives even come with floppies/CD's now with the tools on them.
I'd go for that first.
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Correct!!!


Get the diagnostic from the mfg of your HD
 
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