hard drive diagnostic

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Is there anything available at Dell to do a diagnostic of a hard drive or do
I need to get one from the manufaturer of the hard drive.

 

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Nate Rosenthal wrote:
>
> Is there anything available at Dell to do a diagnostic of a hard drive or do
> I need to get one from the manufaturer of the hard drive.

Have a look at sites, such as:

http://www.snapfiles.com/freeware/system/fwdisktools.html

If the freeware stuff doesn't interest you, head over to
the shareware section.

Notan

 

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Nate Rosenthal wrote:
> Is there anything available at Dell to do a diagnostic of a hard drive or do
> I need to get one from the manufaturer of the hard drive.

The menu from hitting F12 at boot up includes an option to run disk
diagnostics.

 

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CTRL + D at the dell splash screen so long as you haven't wiped the drive to
load the onboard diags prog
"Notan" <notan@ddress.com> wrote in message
news:4257FFEF.8B874216@ddress.com...
> Nate Rosenthal wrote:
>>
>> Is there anything available at Dell to do a diagnostic of a hard drive or
>> do
>> I need to get one from the manufaturer of the hard drive.
>
> Have a look at sites, such as:
>
> http://www.snapfiles.com/freeware/system/fwdisktools.html
>
> If the freeware stuff doesn't interest you, head over to
> the shareware section.
>
> Notan

 

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.... and other system diagnostics as well... Ben Myers

On Sat, 09 Apr 2005 13:10:09 -0400, Sparky Spartacus
<Sparky@spartacus.galaxy.org> wrote:

>Nate Rosenthal wrote:
>> Is there anything available at Dell to do a diagnostic of a hard drive or do
>> I need to get one from the manufaturer of the hard drive.
>
>The menu from hitting F12 at boot up includes an option to run disk
>diagnostics.

 

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Dell has disk diagnostics on the diagnostic partition, but there is nothing like
a drive manufacturer's diagnostics to supply accurate and detailed information
about the state of the drive. (Most of) the manufacturers make them available
via a free download. Toshiba does not, a good reason not to use Toshiba
notebook drives... Ben Myers

On Sat, 9 Apr 2005 12:11:51 -0400, "Nate Rosenthal" <ncrose@comcast.net> wrote:

>Is there anything available at Dell to do a diagnostic of a hard drive or do
>I need to get one from the manufaturer of the hard drive.
>
>

 

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If you go to http://seatools.seagatestorage.com/en?SRC_1=pr you can request
a free CD that will test your hard drive. Although this is supplied by
Seagate it works on any manufacturers drive.
"Notan" <notan@ddress.com> wrote in message
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> Nate Rosenthal wrote:
>>
>> Is there anything available at Dell to do a diagnostic of a hard drive or
>> do
>> I need to get one from the manufaturer of the hard drive.
>
> Have a look at sites, such as:
>
> http://www.snapfiles.com/freeware/system/fwdisktools.html
>
> If the freeware stuff doesn't interest you, head over to
> the shareware section.
>
> Notan

 

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ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net (Ben Myers) top-posted:
>Dell has disk diagnostics on the diagnostic partition, but there is nothing like
>a drive manufacturer's diagnostics to supply accurate and detailed information
>about the state of the drive. (Most of) the manufacturers make them available
>via a free download.

What Ben said. Find your drive manufacturer and download the latest
diag from them. Many of them will practically create RMAs for you.

 

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On Sat, 9 Apr 2005 12:11:51 -0400, "Nate Rosenthal"
<ncrose@comcast.net> wrote:

>Is there anything available at Dell to do a diagnostic of a hard drive or do
>I need to get one from the manufaturer of the hard drive.
>
After I confronted Dell with probably HD failure (within warranth) on
Inspiron 8699, they stepped me thru some diagnostic procedures over
the phone to confirm. So I suspect there are some useful tests.

Since then, I've using the program Drive Health 2.0 Beta5 to monitor.

 

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William P. N. Smith wrote:
> ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net (Ben Myers) top-posted:
>
>>Dell has disk diagnostics on the diagnostic partition, but there is nothing like
>>a drive manufacturer's diagnostics to supply accurate and detailed information
>>about the state of the drive. (Most of) the manufacturers make them available
>>via a free download.
>
> What Ben said. Find your drive manufacturer and download the latest
> diag from them. Many of them will practically create RMAs for you.

FWIW, I downloaded Maxtor's most recent PowerMax (4.21) when I was
dealing with my 2 bum Maxtors - PowerMax did not report on any SATA
drives, only the parallel ones on the EIDE interface (same result with
Hitachi's Drive Fitness Test (DFT)).

 

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Maxtor is definitely behind the power curve if Powermax does not work with SATA
drives... Ben Myers

On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 08:39:24 -0400, Sparky Spartacus
<Sparky@spartacus.galaxy.org> wrote:

>William P. N. Smith wrote:
>> ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net (Ben Myers) top-posted:
>>
>>>Dell has disk diagnostics on the diagnostic partition, but there is nothing like
>>>a drive manufacturer's diagnostics to supply accurate and detailed information
>>>about the state of the drive. (Most of) the manufacturers make them available
>>>via a free download.
>>
>> What Ben said. Find your drive manufacturer and download the latest
>> diag from them. Many of them will practically create RMAs for you.
>
>FWIW, I downloaded Maxtor's most recent PowerMax (4.21) when I was
>dealing with my 2 bum Maxtors - PowerMax did not report on any SATA
>drives, only the parallel ones on the EIDE interface (same result with
>Hitachi's Drive Fitness Test (DFT)).