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Falcata

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From: Michiana

Registered: 2008-01-23

Posts: 501

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Hard Drive Error-Detection Tool

I had heard somewhere about a free utility which will write junk data to a hard drive, read the sector it just wrote to, and instruct the hard drive to disable that sector if any flaws are detected.  Does anyone know where I can get this tool?  I've had three hard drive failures in the past year, two of which were because of bad sectors.

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MadTux

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Registered: 2009-09-20

Posts: 553

Re: Hard Drive Error-Detection Tool

Did you look at your hdd vendors website? Vendors often provide tools for testing their hard drives.

Dieter@be

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2006-11-05

Posts: 2,001

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Re: Hard Drive Error-Detection Tool

you're looking for badblocks.

AIDE is also pretty cool.

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