read as "disk manufacturers"....
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"Thomas Wendell" <(E-Mail Removed)> kirjoitti viestissä
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> Most fidk manufacturers have some testing program for their disks. Look at
> their homapages..
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> "paulo" <(E-Mail Removed)> kirjoitti viestissä
> news:41a65c4a$0$546$(E-Mail Removed)...
> > I've just replaced my primary hard disk after believing that the last
two
> > system failures have been due to a failure of the disk, which showed up
as
> > various programs reporting various disk errors: e.g. run Norton disk
> doctor
> > (without 'Fix Errors' checked) and it reports disk errors. Then run it
> with
> > 'Fix Errors' and it decides it cannot do anything, so schedules a disk
> check
> > on next startup - which of course is actually MS's CHKDSK, not Norton.
But
> > CHKDSK reports no errors.
> >
> > I have tried to do my homework on this, and now believe that any errors
I
> > was seeing might just be down to the way that XP/NTFS locks the volume,
> and
> > whilst locked, various 'minor errors' (in MS speak) are visible. But it
> > doesn't put me at ease that I have a reliable way of checking the
> integrity
> > of my hard disk. So, can anyone confirm:
> >
> > - would it be right to state that a CHKDSK run from the repair console
> after
> > booting from the original install CD would 1/ have full access to the
disk
> > (i.e. as XP hasn't booted, it can't have locked it) and 2/ if this
reports
> > that the disk is clean, then it must be?....
> >
> > - as above, but having F8 booted to a DOS prompt (whoops - is this
> possible?
> > forgot to check....).
> >
> > - are there any tools (other than Norton) that are worth running once XP
> has
> > booted, to verify the integrity of the disk? *preferably freeware, as I
> have
> > already shelled out for Norton (and am only now seeing it's limitations
> due
> > to the way NTFS works...).
> >
> > Just makes me think that I wasted my money on a replacement disk, and/or
> > XP/NTFS has really screwed up visibility of being able to check your
> > hardware for errors......
> >
> > TIA.
> >
> >
>
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