Samsung HUTIL progress % hangs ?

[jives]

Hi,

I have a couple of PC's with samsung 160Gb hard drives. I wanted to
check them for bad sectoros, so made a bootable diskette and put HUTIL
& its cfg file on it.

I booted the first (A Compaq) and the disgnostic tool ran, everything
passed and it did a full surface scan.


The second machine , a dell, the tests past but the surface scan
apeared to freeze at 43.102%. There was disk activity and the spining
line still spun, but no more progress. I left for a while then aborted.


Anyone seen a similar problem ? Perhaps I should have left it running,
I was just concerned at what it might be doing.

I have no system log events that would indicate bad sectors of this
drive.

Thanks

 

[Rod Speed]

I have a couple of PC's with samsung 160Gb hard drives.
I wanted to check them for bad sectoros, so made a
bootable diskette and put HUTIL & its cfg file on it.

I booted the first (A Compaq) and the disgnostic tool
ran, everything passed and it did a full surface scan.

The second machine , a dell, the tests past but the surface scan
apeared to freeze at 43.102%. There was disk activity and the spining
line still spun, but no more progress. I left for a while then aborted.

Anyone seen a similar problem ?
Nope.

Perhaps I should have left it running,

Yeah, it might have just been retrying on bads.

I was just concerned at what it might be doing.

I have no system log events that would
indicate bad sectors of this drive.

See what the SMART data for the drive shows, using
http://www.lavalys.com/products/overview.php?pid=1&lang=en&pageid=1

 

[Jonathan Ives]

I have a couple of PC's with samsung 160Gb hard drives.
I wanted to check them for bad sectoros, so made a
bootable diskette and put HUTIL & its cfg file on it.

I booted the first (A Compaq) and the disgnostic tool
ran, everything passed and it did a full surface scan.

The second machine , a dell, the tests past but the surface scan
apeared to freeze at 43.102%. There was disk activity and the spining
line still spun, but no more progress. I left for a while then aborted.

Anyone seen a similar problem ?
Nope.

Perhaps I should have left it running,

Yeah, it might have just been retrying on bads.
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Thanks Rod,

I tried again and this time the PC wouldn't boot from the diskette !?

So , I created a new one and then re-tried HUTIL. This time it ran to
100% no errors, so I guess the only bad media was the diskette I
created HUTIL on !?

 

[Rod Speed]

Yeah, it might have just been retrying on bads.

Thanks Rod,

I tried again and this time the PC wouldn't boot from the diskette !?

So , I created a new one and then re-tried HUTIL. This time it ran to
100% no errors, so I guess the only bad media was the diskette I
created HUTIL on !?[/QUOTE]

Guess that is possible. You'd normally expect that
if it loaded from the floppy it would be fine tho.