Hardrive status check

[eyetea]

Hi all,

 

Just wondering if you could help - in the odd moments of peace (hah) I'm finally trying to sort our the office + store room. We have a box of 15/20 HDD's that were taken from dead machines for use as spares - I used one the other day and it was obvious it was a duff one as it was clicking away. Aside from listening and seeing if it appears in disk management / explorer is there any software I could run to verify if the hard drive is a good'un or not?

 

Cheers,

 

J

[r0cketbev]

Depending on maker of drive you can get software like Seagate tools or WD lifeguard to test if the unit is duff or not.

I have used them in the past and found them to be very good at diagnosis.

[synaesthesia]

Hirens Boot CD is a wonderful tool for many things including HDD checker. I usually use HDD Sentinel on it as an initial check; if that passes with 100% health and no smart warnings then I'll check with the HDD manufacturers tool also on the same CD. If it's bad in Sentinel, it'll get thrown.