Anyway to check if my Hard Disk is going Bad or to check disk health?

[kman79]

I was reinstalling XP and towards the end of the Reformat, around 90%, the reformat stoped and told me the disk was damage and that it was not able to isntall XP. So I rebooted and tried again, and same thing. I rebooted once more and did the quick reformat and XP installed. I'm posting this message from that very PC and so far everything is running great.

I am now worried though that the disk maybe at its end of life. I would say it is rougly two years old, but no more than three. But is there any way I can check the Disk Health with some program to see if there are any issues with it? I do plan on doing a new build in the coming months but would rather now spend the cash on a new Hard Drive now. Any help on this is greatly appreciated guys.

 

[oynaz]

Download Seatools from Seagate's website.

 

[Old Hippie]

If it's the Seagate HD in your sig, how about the Seagate diagnostic tools?

 

[kman79]

Thanks for the advice guys, I feel a bit stupid for not thinking of that.

I just ran the tests, and it came up with no errors. Is it safe to assume that the error that occured during the XP Reformat of the drive was just a false error?

 

[oynaz]

You HDD is probably OK. Try again, the XP installer does some strange things sometimes.

 

[dwcal]

Originally posted by: kman79
Thanks for the advice guys, I feel a bit stupid for not thinking of that.

I just ran the tests, and it came up with no errors. Is it safe to assume that the error that occured during the XP Reformat of the drive was just a false error?

The disk is probably ok. If it still messes up, try stock speed on the CPU. Too high an OC can cause disk errors.