Hard drive diagnostics
Gents,
Was wondering if anyone could recommend some good hard drive diagnostics software. It needs to be something we can just boot from and support most, if not all, manufacturers. Something to check for bad sectors, S.M.A.R.T, etc. Also, it doesn't have to be free - willing to pay for something good and reliable.
Was wondering if anyone could recommend some good hard drive diagnostics software. It needs to be something we can just boot from and support most, if not all, manufacturers. Something to check for bad sectors, S.M.A.R.T, etc. Also, it doesn't have to be free - willing to pay for something good and reliable.
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demonfurbie Member Posts: 1,819 ■■■■■□□□□□UBCD for Windows
Hiren's BootCD 13.1 - All in one Bootable CD » www.hiren.info
its what i use, you can get them to boot from usb/cdwgu undergrad: done ... woot!!
WGU MS IT Management: done ... double woot :cheers: -
SteveLord Member Posts: 1,717CrystalDiskInfo
HD Tune Pro
However, I believe they only run out of Windows.WGU B.S.IT - 9/1/2015 >>> ??? -
jibbajabba Member Posts: 4,317 ■■■■■■■■□□Every manufacturer has programs actually to test the drives. Those are normally floppy disks which can be used to create a bootable CD
Here's a selection
Hard Drive Diagnostics Tools and Utilities (Storage) - TACKtech Corp.My own knowledge base made public: http://open902.com -
RobertKaucher Member Posts: 4,299 ■■■■■■■■■■I've always used Hitachi DFT. Burn the ISO to CD and you are ready to go!
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jmreicha Member Posts: 78 ■■□□□□□□□□RobertKaucher wrote: »I've always used Hitachi DFT. Burn the ISO to CD and you are ready to go!
This is an excellent tool, it has worked on 90%+ of the drives I've tried it on. There is another great LiveCD, called MHDD by HDDGuru. It has the ability to remap bad sectors and gives good detail to how bad a drive is failing. It can basically perform functions that tools like Spinrite do, for free.
I will warn you though, MHDD is poorly documented so it might take some figuring out on your part. -
hex_omega Member Posts: 183Great suggestions all around Gents. I especially like the Hitachi DFT. Tried it out already.
THis is for you guys...
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N2IT Inactive Imported Users Posts: 7,483 ■■■■■■■■■■Don't most laptops and desktops have drive fitness test in the BIOS?
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hex_omega Member Posts: 183They do. But they cannot be trusted all the time. Dell is excellent when it comes to this. HP has gotten better lately, but their older boot diagnostics really sucked. I have not seen diagnostics on the Toshiba and Sony units that we service.
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N2IT Inactive Imported Users Posts: 7,483 ■■■■■■■■■■They do. But they cannot be trusted all the time. Dell is excellent when it comes to this. HP has gotten better lately, but their older boot diagnostics really sucked. I have not seen diagnostics on the Toshiba and Sony units that we service.
Gotcha.
Yeah Lenovo's is okay
Agreed Dell's in spot on. It works very well.