- May 23, 2002
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Is there a program out there that I can boot form that will check out a hard drive and see if the drive is usable or not? I have a stack of old drives laying around and don't know which might be good or bad.
I know each manufacturer has their own diagnostic but is there somethign more robust and that I can use on any drive? Mainly to just have it go through the drive and look for bad sector and whatnot, maybe flag them as not usable so the drive will just skip them and the rest of the drive would still work fine?
THanks.
I know each manufacturer has their own diagnostic but is there somethign more robust and that I can use on any drive? Mainly to just have it go through the drive and look for bad sector and whatnot, maybe flag them as not usable so the drive will just skip them and the rest of the drive would still work fine?
THanks.