Good utility for testing HDD's ?

[Kniteman77]

I just got a bunch of hard drives used and I'm looking to test for dead sectors, read errors and any other type of error that hard drives can produce.

What is a good Windows based and/or self booting tool that i could use to do this ?

Hopefully someone out there has done this before, or at least knows more than me 😉

Thanks in advance

AIM me would be quickest

Kniteman77

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Tim at netREMOVEaffect dot com

 

[obeseotron]

Most HDD manufacturers will have those utilities on their sites and they are almost always dos based. Make a dos boot floppy, if you don't know how to do that you can download boot disk makers from bootdisk.com. If you don't have a floppy nero will make you a bootable cd, it comes with a dos boot image that it can use to make a bootable dos cd with support for most kinds of cd drives and even hdd controllers.

 

[Kniteman77]

Dude, thanks for the memory jog

Totally forgot about that . . . i used to use the maxtor utility all the time 🙂

Thx much.

 

[dwcal]

The Ultimate Boot CD has them all in one place, plus the CD loads much faster than a floppy. It's full of other great utilities too.

 

[corkyg]

And Gibson Research has just released SpinRite 6.0. It is excellent.

S/R 6