Hello

I am a PC engineer and frequently hard drives fail. Sometimes a hard drive
is suspected but with no sure evidence it is only a guess to replace the
disk. Chkdsk on NT does not usually find any fault with a disk which is
really bad. Are there any hardware or software products which can
rigorously check a disk?

Angus Comber
Itel Office Software Ltd
5 Enmore Gardens
London, SW14 8RF
Tel: 020 8878 7367
Fax: 020 8876 7257
Em: angus@iteloffice.com
web: www.iteloffice.com

"Angus Comber" <angus@NOSPAMiteloffice.com> wrote in message
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> Hello
>
> I am a PC engineer and frequently hard drives fail. Sometimes a hard
> drive is suspected but with no sure evidence it is only a guess to
> replace the disk. Chkdsk on NT does not usually find any fault with a
> disk which is really bad. Are there any hardware or software products
> which can rigorously check a disk?
>
> Angus Comber
> Itel Office Software Ltd
> 5 Enmore Gardens
> London, SW14 8RF
> Tel: 020 8878 7367
> Fax: 020 8876 7257
> Em: angus@iteloffice.com
> web: www.iteloffice.com
>

The best utility is the disk health utility available on the disk
vendor's site, if there is such utility. OTOH, I run chkdsk /r to fix
possible problems with the Windows file system before running the disk
health utilities.

Q

http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm

--PA

"Angus Comber" wrote:
> Hello
>
> I am a PC engineer and frequently hard drives fail. Sometimes a hard drive
> is suspected but with no sure evidence it is only a guess to replace the
> disk. Chkdsk on NT does not usually find any fault with a disk which is
> really bad. Are there any hardware or software products which can
> rigorously check a disk?
>
> Angus Comber
> Itel Office Software Ltd
> 5 Enmore Gardens
> London, SW14 8RF
> Tel: 020 8878 7367
> Fax: 020 8876 7257
> Em: angus@iteloffice.com
> web: www.iteloffice.com
>
>
>