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Hard Disk Testing Utility

scooby · 2001-08-27 15:14:00

Hi folks, I have a harddisk which I suspect may be dodgy, so I have reformated it and reinstalled the OS(NT4).What I'm looking for now is a utility that will read and write to every sector of the hard disk for a few hours(12hrs ie overnight) and report back any faults. I was thinking of something in line with the…

27-08-2001 4:14pm

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scooby

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Hi folks,
I have a harddisk which I suspect may be dodgy, so I have reformated it and reinstalled the OS(NT4).What I'm looking for now is a utility that will read and write to every sector of the hard disk for a few hours(12hrs ie overnight) and report back any faults.

I was thinking of something in line with the utilities, which delete data permanently, by overwriting it a couple of times with data.

Thanks in advance

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#2 27-08-2001 4:22pm

MiCr0

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afar there is something in the PGP suite of tools that does this.
might be worth a look

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