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Originally Posted by =Maverick=
And what piece of so called "drive fitness" test do you own or have tried in the past that is 100% accurate? Just because you have success running one piece of diagnostic software doesn't mean the HDD in question is safe to use.
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I'm not going to continue to reply to your other posts. I think I've wasted enough time on them and, especially at this point, that's what the mods are here for.
But as to the reliability of drive fitness tests -- I really don't see how 100% accuracy is a prerequisite for any tool. Nobody calls McAfee, Norton, Lavasoft, Webroot, etc. out and refuses to use them because their security tools don't find all the viruses and spyware there are to find. The point of any diagnostic tool is to give the user a good idea as to what probelms there are, and a drive fitness test does just that. They are produced by the hard drive manufacturers themselves and are used by those manufactuers as diagnostic tools, so I would trust them even if I hadn't found them to be effective in checking for problems the mutliple times I've used them in the past.
I will reiterate my advice to Henderson, because I believe it is sound -- and I will let him decide whether to take my advice or not, because it's his money and it's his data. Run Western Digital's drive fitness test. If the drive checks out okay, then I would say that it's safe to use. If not, you should throw it on the trash heap and buy a new drive, or into a box back to WD and get a replacement if it's under warranty.