Need a hard drive test utility for XP

[Jumpem]

I need a utility that will test the fitness of a hard drive running Windows XP. I think that my IBM 60GXP may be on it's way out. It had a corrupt file and wouldn't boot earlier. Checkdisk found 220KB of data in bad sectors. I tried the IBM drive fitness program but it doesn't run under XP. Thanks very much for any suggestions!

 

[SocrPlyr]

download the bootable disk that has IBM's drive fitness on it and stick this disk in and have it booted to and then the program will run, it isn't a windows program

Josh

 

[Jumpem]

SocrPlyr, I did just that earlier tonight but my machine wouldn't boot from the disk that was created. Someone else also told me that it didn't work with XP.

 

[SocrPlyr]

hmm i'm not really sure of any other fitness tests out there other than running a scandisk... sry
but here is a free bump for ya

Josh

 

[RalfHutter]

IBM's Drive Fitness test works fine in XP. The file you download from here creates a bootable diskette if you run it. Here's a troublshooting page for the bootable diskette. If you're still having trouble, email me and I'll send you an image of the bootable diskette.