Best way to test if my hard drive is defective?

[Codeloss]

I've been having a lot of trouble with a new 200GB drive over the past week, but I think I may have solved the problem... it seems that things are in stable condition again. I switched the driver for the IDE controller that came with it, and all seems to be well again. Well, not exactly... the driver western digital provides on their site still caused my system to freeze up when I tried to browse that drive. I dug up the most recent driver from Promise, and things seem to be working.
My concern is that I ran western digital's bootable "data lifeguard" floppy about an hour ago (same physical configuration, but not before I fixed the driver thing--that shouldn't matter in this case, right?) and it seemed to find an error with "multi zone error rate" and displayed "warning: command issued while DRQ set" repeatedly while it was testing.

So basically, I want to know, what is the best utility to use for a second opinion? CHKDSK doesn't see anything funky with the drive. I really don't want to go to the hassle of RMAing this drive if its okay.

thanks all

 

[Bleep]

Well the drive is not OK if the Data Lifeguard tool found a error it is not good, call them up and they will send a new drive and then you return the old drive to them in the same box, that way you can get your stuff transferrred over.

Bleep

 

[Willoughbyva]

Not sure what to tell you. I have a raid controller on my motherboard. I have a couple maxtor drives and if I use the maxtor software it always comes up with errors because my raid controller isn't really supported it seems. For you one would think that since the drive and controller came from the same company it would be supported by the diagnostic software that they give you, but I don't know.