On 2009/04/28 20:42 (GMT+0800) John Summerfield composed:
Go to your disk manufacturer's website and look for any
diagnostic
tools. IBM, before it got out of the disk business, had its Drive
Fitness Test program on a floppy disk image of PCDOS 2000 (or so) ready
for users to download, write to a floppy and boot. Hitachi inherited
that, but I don't know the state of play.
Other vendors (eg Seagate) also provide test programs for their
disks.
Some _might_ require Windows.
Or goto
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ and download and burn and boot it. It
has all the drive manufacturers' disk test software on it, among many other
useful diagnostic and configuration utilities.
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