Does anyone have any suggestions on any tools to check harddisk physical
damage?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions
Eric

On Wed, 2 Sep 2009 18:49:02 -0700, Eric
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>Does anyone have any suggestions on any tools to check harddisk physical
>damage?
>Thanks in advance for any suggestions
>Eric

The Ultimate Boot CD has disk checking utilities from several disk
manufacturers:

http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

Or, check the disk manufacturer's web site for a utility.
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"Eric" wrote:

> Does anyone have any suggestions on any tools to check harddisk physical
> damage?
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions
> Eric

Got Google?

Mark Adams <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

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>"Eric" wrote:
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>> Does anyone have any suggestions on any tools to check harddisk physical
>> damage?
>> Thanks in advance for any suggestions
>> Eric
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>Got Google?

Gotta have a brain first.

Eric wrote:
> Does anyone have any suggestions on any tools to check harddisk physical
> damage?

A good starting point is Windows' CHKDSK command:

C:\>chkdsk c: /f /r

to test for bad sectors.

This will also attempt to recover data from any bad sectors it finds;
and mark the sectors as 'bad' so they won't be used again.

If after running CHKDSK, you suspect there are still more low-level
physical problems with the drive, you'd want to run the hardware
diagnostic utility supplied by the relevant disk vendor - eg Seagate,
Western Digital etc. Check their website for downloads.

Hope it helps,

Andrew
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amclar at optusnet dot com dot au

Eric wrote:
> Does anyone have any suggestions on any tools to check hard disk physical
> damage?
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions
> Eric

Hello Eric:

Steve Gibson's SpinRite6 <http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm> is
getting a bit pricey, at $89USD for first time buyers, but can be
effect for salvageable HDDs. This utility will resurrect repairable
sectors (versus clusters) and mark those bad that won't repair.

Though written by/for Hitachi, their Drive Fitness Test (DFT) can be
helpful testing any HDD. This is a passive test.

The freeware version of HDTune scans for bad clusters as well report
the informative S.M.A.R.T. values stored in a HDD. This too is a
passive test.

Most would suggest you obtain the unique HDD's manufacturer written
diagnostic downloadable from the individual web sites.

GIYF Eric.

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