Hard Drive Error Disk or Motherboard?

[Grumpy]

On Tuesday 21 November 2006 16:49, Mel wrote:
> Paul Ward wrote:
> > Can anyone explain a way totest these disk so I can be sure they are
> > not corrupt.
>
> At the risk of angering the gods, do you have access to a Windows
>   system?
>
> There is a test program that I have used that seems to be an extensive
> test program.
>
> It comes from IBM/Hitachi and is called a "Drive Fitness test". They
> request you run it before asking them for help with a disk problem or
> before returning a disk because you think it is defective.
>
> You can find it at: www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm
This also has some good tools
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/download.html