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Laptop IBM Disk Drive/ Hitachi diagnostic utility

  • 04-08-2003 11:39pm
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    I was having occasional, inconsistent problems with my laptop and couldn't quite trace the problem. I ran chkdsk, defrag, etc. etc. which found nothing.

    My laptop is a Compaq with an IBM harddrive. However when I looked up the IBM drive analytics page (http://www.storage.ibm.com/hddredirect.html?/support/download.htm) it transpired that IBM subcontract the harddrive from hitachi and just brand it as an IBM! Anyway, the long and the short of it is that I got an excellent Drive Fitness Test utility from http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm which I ran and it found a few bad clusters on the drive which chkdsk had not. Hopefully this is the end of the sporadic problems with the laptop.

    Fwiw my HDD is an IBM-DARA-212000, but the Hitachi utility is the right one to run against it!


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