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Gaming Smartphones Tablets Windows 8 PSUs Android Your question Get the answer Tom's Hardware>Forum>Storage>Best HDD Diagnostic / Testing Utility?> Solved Best HDD Diagnostic / Testing Utility? Tags: Software Hard Drives Storage error checking utility windows 7 Last response: 9 June 2016 22:00 in Storage Share dopey117 9 April 2012 error checking utility vista 03:54:10 I have a new 2TB drive in the mail and I would like to be able to test it
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for errors when it gets here. I want something that will be able to run some simple tests to ensure there are no bad sectors or read/write errors, as well as check
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the SMART status. What software is popular for this today? Its been a long time since Ive had to run any HDD tests. Also, whatever software you recommend make sure its free because I'm kinda broke right now More about : hdd diagnostic testing utility Reply to dopey117 JackNaylorPE a c 181 G Storage 9 April 2012 04:08:09 SpinRite is what I have scan utility always used tho I don't think I have needed to use it since 2006 or so....but it's not free. http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm Other than that, the manufacturers own free diagnostic tools (available on their web sites) should suffice. http://www.seagate.com/www/http://support.wdc.com/produ... http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?level1=6&la... http://www.hitachigst.com/support/downloads/ Reply to JackNaylorPE m 1 l Best solution Ubrales a c 155 G Storage 10 April 2012 07:23:22 A couple of free ones: 1) Crystaldiskinfo - http://crystalmark.info/software/CrystalDiskInfo/index-... 2) HD Tune - http://www.hdtune.com/ Reply to Ubrales Share Related resources Good HDD Diagnostic Utility? - Forum what's the best (paid or free) diagnostic tool for HDD and SSD? - Tech Support HDD testing utility? - Forum Free Hard Disk Drive Benchmark/Diagnostic Utility - Tech Support Which EXTERNAL HDD works best with Win7 Pro BACKUP Utility? - Forum Can't find your answer ? Ask ! Get the answer dopey117 17 April 2012 08:04:04 Best answer selected by dopey117. Reply to dopey117 m 0 l dopey117 17 April 2012 08:04:56 thanks to both of you, HD tune was what i have used in the past I just couldnt remember what it was called Reply to dopey117 m 0 l Ubrales a c 155 G Storage 17
try to recover them. Main Features Scan and Fix multiple virus scan utility drives with one click. Schedule Disk Check on next boot if a drive cannot be locked. Boot http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/282651-32-best-diagnostic-testing-utility Time Disk check can be performed on multiple drives in a click. Use of chkdsk makes it highly safe to use. It can also be scheduled if used with Puran Utilities Batch Fix. http://www.puransoftware.com/Disk-Check.html View Screenshot Compatibility Disk Check is compatible with Windows XP/2003/Vista/2008/7/8/10 including 64 bit versions. It provides native support for 64 bit versions. License Free for private and non-commercial use only. Get Commercial License Version History 03 September 2012 Version 1.0 Disk Check was released with the release of Puran Utilities 01 February 2013 Version 1.1 Minor Fixes and Changes 07 September 2013 Version 1.2 Minor Fixes and Changes 15 June 2015 Version 1.3 Minor Fixes, supports Windows 10 now. Home About Us Privacy Policy Copyright (C) 2007-2013, Puran Software. All Rights Reserved
Team GFI Top posts Bloggers Contact Menu Top 20 Free Disk Tools for SysAdmins Andrew Tabona on August 27, 2015 (31 votes, average: 3.74 out of 5) 9 comments This article lists 20 of the best http://www.gfi.com/blog/top-20-free-disk-tools-for-sysadmins/ free tools for partitioning, cloning, diagnostics, repair, recovery, encryption, wiping or drive information and is intended to supplement the list provided on 101 Free SysAdmin Tools. Even if you may have heard of some of these tools before, I’m confident that you’ll find a gem or two among this list. 1. TestDisk TestDisk allows you to repair boot sectors, recover deleted partitions, fix damaged partition tables, and recover deleted data, as well as copy error checking files from deleted/inaccessible partitions. It works on a number of different file systems including FAT/NTFS/exFAT/ext2. Note: Bundled with TestDisk is a companion application called PhotoRec. PhotoRec recovers photos, videos and documents from different storage media by going beyond the file system and looking for specific data blocks (i.e. clusters) belonging to the missing file(s). When you first run TestDisk you are asked to choose whether you want a log file to be created. You are error checking utility then given a list of partition table types to choose from (this will allow the application to use the correct signature when reading the partitions on all available disks), before being presented with a list of available hard drive partitions to perform a selected action on. The choice of actions you can perform on each partition include: (1) analysing the partition for the correct structure (and repairing it accordingly if a problem is found) (2) changing the disk geometry (3) deleting all data in the partition table (4) recovering the boot sector (5) listing and copying files (6) recovering deleted files (7) creating an image of the partition 2. EaseUS Partition Master Free EaseUS Partition Master Free is a partition manager that allows you to resize, move, merge or split paritions, convert disks, recover deleted or lost partitions, check the partition for errors, migrate the OS to another HDD/SSD, perform disk defragmentation, and more. When you launch EaseUS Partition Master Free, use the operations listed on the left hand pane or the top menu to perform an action against the selected partition(s). 3. WinDirStat WinDirStat is a disk usage and clean-up utility that allows you to visualize how data is distributed across a disk and what types of data or which locations are hogging up most space. Once you’ve loaded WinDirStat and cho