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The Help Desk => Computer Related Discussions & Questions => Topic started by: Chris_ on April 08, 2011, 08:48:48 AM
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Does anyone have a reliable hard drive diagnostic tool (preferrably a bootable ISO) that they have used successfully? I have a hard drive that I need to prove is bad before sending it back to the manufacturer for a replacement unit.
The laptops at work have Hitachi SATA drives in them. I have a copy of the newest Hitachi Drive Fitness Test, but it hangs on startup and nobody here can seem to get it to work on a laptop. It seems to work fine with the desktop machines, though. We've tried previous versions of the HDFT with no luck.
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Does anyone have a reliable hard drive diagnostic tool (preferrably a bootable ISO) that they have used successfully? I have a hard drive that I need to prove is bad before sending it back to the manufacturer for a replacement unit.
The laptops at work have Hitachi SATA drives in them. I have a copy of the newest Hitachi Drive Fitness Test, but it hangs on startup and nobody here can seem to get it to work on a laptop. It seems to work fine with the desktop machines, though. We've tried previous versions of the HDFT with no luck.
Just a thought, but what about hooking up the laptop hard drive as a secondary (tertiary or other) drive to the desktop?? I've done that in the past.
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Someone else tried that... it didn't work.
I'm using Seagate's SeaTools. I overlooked it earlier because I didn't expect it to work with a Hitachi drive. As expected, I'm seeing dozens of errors with this disk.
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Someone else tried that... it didn't work.
I'm using Seagate's SeaTools. I overlooked it earlier because I didn't expect it to work with a Hitachi drive. As expected, I'm seeing dozens of errors with this disk.
yeah, it was an Hitachi drive that died recently in my desktop machine.
Bastids. :bird:
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yeah, it was an Hitachi drive that died recently in my desktop machine.
Bastids. :bird:
They only have a certain working life!! Beyond that, it's all luck & the generosity of the Computer Gods.
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They only have a certain working life!! Beyond that, it's all luck & the generosity of the Computer Gods.
Yeah, I realize that. Mean Time Before Failure (MTBF).
I remember reading something like 100,000 hours was considered normal.
Let's see. There are 8,760 hours in a year. That freakin' hard drive was only a little over 3 years old. That's a little over 24K hours - call it an even 30K hours before the damn thing died.
Hitachi -- Piece Of Shit hard drive. Gimme a WD (though that one will die too, but usually when it's brand new -- not afterwards after it's been "broken in."
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Yeah, I realize that. Mean Time Before Failure (MTBF).
I remember reading something like 100,000 hours was considered normal.
Let's see. There are 8,760 hours in a year. That freakin' hard drive was only a little over 3 years old. That's a little over 24K hours - call it an even 30K hours before the damn thing died.
Hitachi -- Piece Of Shit hard drive. Gimme a WD (though that one will die too, but usually when it's brand new -- not afterwards after it's been "broken in."
I've had my share of WD drives fail even though they are my favorite brand. I had one lock up on me after being stored. That kind of aggravated me.
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SpinRite (http://www.grc.com/spinrite.htm) is a hdd diag tool that has worked quite well for me over the years. :)
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mine simply said no HD can be found.
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mine simply said no HD can be found.
Then it's REALLY broken. Or it's not plugged in.
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Then it's REALLY broken. Or it's not plugged in.
Maybe it's super efficient and state of the art+++. Maybe it runs on air. :naughty:
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You could simply have a bad cable, although I have yet to see a SATA cable go bad. If you're using an IDE ribbon cable I'd replace it with a new one. They're only a couple bucks if you don't have a spare lying around.
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Then it's REALLY broken. Or it's not plugged in.
yep. mine was toast. fortunately I had the recovery CD's. I fixed it myself. its windows XP home which i like
usually they don't unplug themselves. they need someones help there.