Hard Drive Testing software question

[Ozarkboy]

What would be a good Hard drive testing software? I normally run Checkdisk, or seagates software, is there anything out there(free preferably) that shows more stats than these 2? I have laptops that I take care of and sometimes difficult to determine if the harddrive is going south, normally back up their data and then wait for the inevitable to happen. Thanks for your time everyone.

Greg

 

[TheResidentEvil]

drive fitness test is one of the best

 

[ProfessorKaos64]

drive fitness test is one of the best

For SATA drives I second this, with plenty of years Help Desk experience. For IDE nothing beats Salvation. Both of these and more are on the UBCD411 located at:

http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/download.html

Cheers!

p.s. If you find a different opinion, I would love to test their software on old drives for you , good luck.

 

[Ozarkboy]

I am downloading it now, thanks for the info, really needed something to test these Laptop drives, got some that I just don't know about, would throw them away, but the company is being Frugal nowadays.

 

[BlindedByScience]

X2 on the UBCD. I have a couple copies on my bench in the garage, and use it almost every time a machine comes by for a tune up....