Needed: Good Hard Drive Test/Format Utility (IDE Drives)

[Powertrip]

I have a few hard drives kicking around that I am a bit suspicious of. I usually format with my Win 98 Boot Disk but I am looking for something to check the integrity of a drive, give me some information on the drive and weather or not it is safe to use. Any ideas?

Current Tools:

Norton Ghost 7 Drive Integrity Check
Win 98 Boot Disk
Windows Check Disk
XP Home Recovery CHKDSK /P Command

OtherS/

[TwoRails]

Go to WD and Maxtor's site, and d/l their diagnostic untilties. They're good to run when in doubt.

[Powertrip]

Trying out the Western Digital One now, awesome! Any Generic ones for Seagate or Hitachi?

[jayb1234]

Don't know about generic, but I think they both have one available on thier sites. Yup, they do, Seagate Hitachi

[glc]

Download the Ultimate Boot CD. It has diags for almost every brand drive out there (WD, Maxtor, Seagate, IBM/Hitachi, Fujitsu, and Samsung).

ubcd.sourceforge.net

Note - the Hitachi Drive Fitness Test can diagnose all brands, but can only zero fill or attempt to repair Hitachi/IBM drives. If you need a zero fill, the UBCD has Darik's Boot and Nuke on it.

If you have a drive with bad sectors, I use Spinrite to fix it up so I can recover the data, but that's $89.

[monrroy24]

hello, i dowload the wetwern digital and it's great. i did may clone with out a problem.
the only problem that i have it's that i can not copy the wd. file to a floppy to i can use it in other system, the system do not let me make a copy.

samebody know how can i copy this to i can use it on system that is not conected on tne interne?.

[jayb1234]

From the WD website; How do I create a Data Lifeguard Tools 11 diagnostic diskette? Download page is here.

[glc]

You need to download the Data Lifeguard Diagnostic for DOS (Floppy).