Looking For Software to Check A Hard Drive

[Mark Phillips]

On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Jordan Aberle <jordan.aberle at gmail.com>wrote:

> Use the manufacturer's diagnostic software, they all have their own.
> Simply go to the website and click support, look for diagnostic hard
> drive software.  Most of them require that you extract the files to a
> bootable cd or floppy disk and run the test outside linux or windows.
>
> If the hard drive is in warranty and it fails the test just give them
> a call, they will give you an RMA number.
>
> Good idea. My Windows machine does not recognize the drive, and I don't see
any special drivers for it. So I am back to Linux.

Mark


> On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Matt Graham <danceswithcrows at usa.net>
> wrote:
> > From: Mark Phillips <mark at phillipsmarketing.biz>
> >> I have an older hard drive (WD1200VE - 120 GB) However, I would like
> >> to test it (thoroughly, whatever that means) to see if it has any
> >> problems before I use it as a backup drive.
> >
> > If you don't care about the data on the disk, plug it in, then in an
> xterm or
> > konsole or screen session, run "badblocks -s -w -o badblocks.out
> /dev/sdd1",
> > replacing sdd1 with whatever disk and partition# the drive shows up as.
> > This'll do a destructive read/write test on all sectors of the device.
>  It
> > will tie up the device, but all the other devices will remain usable,
> since
> > Linux does multitasking pretty well in most cases.  You could add "-p 1"
> to
> > make it do 2 passes if you really want to check it out.  If it does find
> bad
> > blocks, you can pass the badblocks.out file to mke2fs's -l option, which
> could
> > keep things usable.
> >
> > Make sure you get the device name right.
> >
> > --
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