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| Author: | willpower101 [ June 11th, 2011, 18:30 ] |
| Post subject: | Best software to test read & write to every sector on drive? |
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? |
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| Author: | loki [ June 12th, 2011, 6:00 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Best software to test read & write to every sector on drive? |
HDDSCAN will do a surface scan & show you access times & how many bad sectors the drive has. Loki |
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| Author: | fzabkar [ June 12th, 2011, 7:46 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Best software to test read & write to every sector on drive? |
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. |
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| Author: | willpower101 [ June 12th, 2011, 13:31 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Best software to test read & write to every sector on drive? |
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. |
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| Author: | Vulcan [ June 12th, 2011, 14:17 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Best software to test read & write to every sector on drive? |
willpower101 wrote: 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). |
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