As the title says, I'm looking for a reliable testing tool for hard drives. I have a bunch of old hard drives, most of which I only checked with CHKDSK.
Can anyone recommend something better?
Cheers
Seconded on MHDD. Usually I'd use the original manufacturer's boot disk off of UltimateBootCD, then resort to MHDD if I deemed their utility weak or if for some reason UBCD did not support the drive mfg.
SpinRite (Gibson Research) is another great tool.
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Stiletto
Is MHDD much faster at doing a surface scan?
PC Tools / Scandisk 🤣
I've used HDAT2
PC Tools, scandisk, and chkdsk are FILE system level checking tools, their abilities to test for hardware level errors are very limited
Just gotten around to testing MHDD. It's all nice and dandy but unfortunately it doesn't work with older drives with no LBA support...
HD Tune Pro is what I use. Not sure about the LBA part, but I tested a very basic 2GB drive from '97 on it. It's painful testing drives that transfer at a Max of about 2MB a second.
wrote:HD Tune Pro is what I use. Not sure about the LBA part, but I tested a very basic 2GB drive from '97 on it. It's painful testing drives that transfer at a Max of about 2MB a second.
I've used the HD Tune Free. SpeedFan's SMART and HDD features are great.
-redblade7
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Norton Disk Doctor is very useful and user-friendly.
