Best software to test read & write to every sector on drive?

[willpower101]

Basically, I have a drive that was recovered, And I know chkdsk isn't enough. I used to have some old dos software I used to read and write to ever sector on the drive multiple times in order to check the drive integrity.

What's the best / latest equivalent of that?

[loki]

HDDSCAN will do a surface scan & show you access times & how many bad sectors the drive has.

Loki

[fzabkar]

AIUI, software that runs under a multitasking OS cannot always lock a drive for its own use. Furthermore, if the CPU is performing intensive background jobs, then the access time results may be skewed.

Instead I would suggest MHDD which runs under DOS. It does essentially the same things as HDDScan, plus a whole lot more.

[willpower101]

Thanks so much, I think it actually have have been MHDD. I looked at that earlier and it didn't look familiar but after reading the capabilities I'm thinking that had to have been the one.

[Vulcan]

I used to have some old dos software I used to read and write to ever sector on the drive multiple times in order to check the drive integrity.

That description sounds like you might be remembering SpinRite (which I wouldn't use personally).