Good drive checker?

[Rydawg5143]

Need something that will test my drives for errors etc. ideas?

 

[natan-]

To check my 7200.11 1.5s I ran them through 48+ hours of Bart's Stuff Test + Winthrax. Seemed to weed out the weak ones.

 

[criccio]

HDTune will do this IIRC.

 

[Mcavity]

There isa program called HD sentinel for windows that can tell you about the status of smart errors and some other info.
http://www.hdsentinel.com/

 

[dydx]

HD Tune checks for bad sectors, but I dont think it recovers them. That's why I just use the built in windows drive checker. Then if you've got some really bad sectors that the windows tool wont recover from, then maybe try a bootable tool like Spin Rite or HDD Regenerator.

 

[Old Hippie]

HD Tune checks for bad sectors, but I dont think it recovers them. That's why I just use the built in windows drive checker. Then if you've got some really bad sectors that the windows tool wont recover from, then maybe try a bootable tool like Spin Rite or HDD Regenerator.

AFAIK nothing will actually repair bad sectors.

HDD Regenerator claims to repair.....

Almost 60% of all hard drives damaged with bad sectors have an incorrectly magnetized disk surface.

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I have used SpinRite to recover data but it doesn't actually reapair the bad sectors, it just keeps re-reading the same sector until it gets as much data as possible.

 

[MaxBurn]

spinrite FTW.
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[ericsan]

For true hard disk testing and repair of bad sectors, try MHDD. Its a bootable disk image.