Hard drive diagnostic

[Jim]

My one year old WD 640 SATA drive has a few bad sectors. Wanted to test
the drive in full so I downloaded the Data Lifeguard Diagnostic for DOS
(CD) Version 5.04f

Booting to the disk it reports "error status code 0120", drive not
found. Funny but I'm using it now.

Does this actual imply a fault in the drive so that it can't report? Or
just a weakness in the WD software not being able to navigate thru the
sata controller?

 

[Paul]

My one year old WD 640 SATA drive has a few bad sectors. Wanted to test
the drive in full so I downloaded the Data Lifeguard Diagnostic for DOS
(CD) Version 5.04f

Booting to the disk it reports "error status code 0120", drive not
found. Funny but I'm using it now.

Does this actual imply a fault in the drive so that it can't report? Or
just a weakness in the WD software not being able to navigate thru the
sata controller?

Have you tried changing modes in the BIOS ? Maybe it is an AHCI
versus non-AHCI issue.

Paul

 

[Jim]

Have you tried changing modes in the BIOS ? Maybe it is an AHCI versus
non-AHCI issue.

Paul

Thanks. Your hunch was 100% accurate.

 

[Jure Sah]

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Hi,

If you don't mind me asking, is there a particular reason you'd want to
use a diagnostic program for DOS in 2010?

All drives since 15+ years ago have built-in SMART diagnostics firmware.
Get a SMART data reading tool such as smartmontools and use it instead.
It'll destroy less end-of-lifetime drives while checking for errors too.

LP,
Jure

Jim pravi:

My one year old WD 640 SATA drive has a few bad sectors. Wanted to test
the drive in full so I downloaded the Data Lifeguard Diagnostic for DOS
(CD) Version 5.04f

Booting to the disk it reports "error status code 0120", drive not
found. Funny but I'm using it now.

Does this actual imply a fault in the drive so that it can't report? Or
just a weakness in the WD software not being able to navigate thru the
sata controller?

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