Hard Drive Diagnostic tools

[andru]

i Have a 40GB ibm Deskstar drive and it keeps freezing up even after a clean install i want to do a diagnostic on the hard drive are there any good tools to do this

Thanks

[roadworker]

Try SpinRite 5.....or the website of IBM......for example,Maxtor has MaxBlast,so probably there's also a tool available @ IBM support site....

[Ursula]

Try the one on the IBM Website. Found that my IBM disk was broken, and by pure luck i got a replacement. Some of the IBM disk are troublesome.

Ursula

[test76]

hello
please go to

IBM site and under download take IBM drive fitnes test (work serfully with it man)
Maxtor maxtor diagnostic test PowerDIag

for every disk company you can get diferent tests which works with other disk too

test76

/me shudders at the fact that you have a "deathstar".



Get a real hard drive that won't fail every 10 minutes...

-CaP

[unicorn]

I used to have IBM drives. Now after all the problems with the Deskstar drives I have bought Seagate drives instead. Does it make me feel better? Nah. A couple of years ago the Deskstar series was really good (best IDE drive to be find). Then something happened and some batches of drives were inclined to fail in different ways. So - there they lost some of their solid reputation. Going even further back in time the same story has been heard about many harddrives.

It is also hard to read reviews, they are seldom focusing on realibility. Also hard to test this of course. I say go for low noise=low speed=low price and a three year warranty if possible.

Then say a prayer.

@andru: What do you mean "freeze"? Please try to describe a little more precise. Another thing, have you checked with the mobo homesite and made sure this isn't a known problem with your mobo/bios version?

[unicorn]

Ay. Forgot, go to
www.tufftest.com
and see what they have for you.