How to check a hard drive

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Angus Comber

Hello

I am a PC engineer and frequently hard drives fail. Sometimes a hard drive
is suspected but with no sure evidence it is only a guess to replace the
disk. Chkdsk on NT does not usually find any fault with a disk which is
really bad. Are there any hardware or software products which can
rigorously check a disk?

Angus Comber
Itel Office Software Ltd
5 Enmore Gardens
London, SW14 8RF
Tel: 020 8878 7367
Fax: 020 8876 7257
Em: (e-mail address removed)
web: www.iteloffice.com
 
Angus Comber said:
Hello

I am a PC engineer and frequently hard drives fail. Sometimes a hard
drive is suspected but with no sure evidence it is only a guess to
replace the disk. Chkdsk on NT does not usually find any fault with a
disk which is really bad. Are there any hardware or software products
which can rigorously check a disk?

Angus Comber
Itel Office Software Ltd
5 Enmore Gardens
London, SW14 8RF
Tel: 020 8878 7367
Fax: 020 8876 7257
Em: (e-mail address removed)
web: www.iteloffice.com
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The best utility is the disk health utility available on the disk
vendor's site, if there is such utility. OTOH, I run chkdsk /r to fix
possible problems with the Windows file system before running the disk
health utilities.

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