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TheDamned
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 Posted: Thu, 22nd Feb 2007 04:30 Post subject: Hard drive diagnostic software ? |
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What's a good software to find troubles with my HDD ?
My 500GB SATA2 Maxtor has some trouble I want to know what's
up... thanks.
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| Posted: Thu, 22nd Feb 2007 04:47 Post subject: |
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Franneke
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| Posted: Thu, 22nd Feb 2007 08:18 Post subject: |
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Yah, never buy Maxtor!!!
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TheDamned
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| Posted: Thu, 22nd Feb 2007 14:55 Post subject: |
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lol i've always had a Maxtor and never had any troubles.
I used MaxBlast and it's saying I might have a problem but it doesn't tell me anything... Need a better software.
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nouseforaname
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| Posted: Thu, 22nd Feb 2007 16:31 Post subject: |
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anyone else with a suggestion?
I accidentally dropped my external HD a couple weeks ago ... been getting some crc errors ... did I fuxxor it or what?
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| Posted: Thu, 22nd Feb 2007 18:19 Post subject: |
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HDD Health shows all parameters and stats for a disk, plus it monitors and shows all the smart values of the drives installed.
http://www.panterasoft.com/
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deelix
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nouseforaname
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| Posted: Thu, 22nd Feb 2007 18:44 Post subject: |
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| whoKnows wrote: | HDD Health shows all parameters and stats for a disk, plus it monitors and shows all the smart values of the drives installed.
http://www.panterasoft.com/ |
if there are bad sectors (would dropping do that?) ... can you stop writing shit to them?
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| Posted: Thu, 22nd Feb 2007 19:56 Post subject: |
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| nouseforaname wrote: | | if there are bad sectors (would dropping do that?) ... can you stop writing shit to them? |
The firmware of the drive usually detects bad sectors and changes sector mapping accordingly, witch means it marks a bad sector and uses one of the reserved sectors instead. HDD Health shows you the number of bad blocks and how many have been reassigned etc. Hard to tell if dropping caused bad sectors, it could very well be that it did something to the mechanics witch then lead to bad sectors.
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nouseforaname
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| Posted: Fri, 23rd Feb 2007 03:45 Post subject: |
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if hdd health relys on S.M.A.R.T readings then it probably wont work with maxtor drives, all the maxtor drives i ever bought havent supported S.M.A.R.T monitoring.
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TheDamned
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| Posted: Mon, 5th Mar 2007 03:40 Post subject: |
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Umm my 500GB SATA2 Maxtor HD seems to support it.
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