First post, by Half-Saint
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Seconded on MHDD. Usually I'd use the original manufacturer's boot disk off of UltimateBootCD, then resort to MHDD if I deemed their utility weak or if for some reason UBCD did not support the drive mfg.
SpinRite (Gibson Research) is another great tool.
"I see a little silhouette-o of a man, Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you
do the Fandango!" - Queen
Stiletto
Is MHDD much faster at doing a surface scan?
PC Tools / Scandisk 🤣
I've used HDAT2
PC Tools, scandisk, and chkdsk are FILE system level checking tools, their abilities to test for hardware level errors are very limited
HD Tune Pro is what I use. Not sure about the LBA part, but I tested a very basic 2GB drive from '97 on it. It's painful testing drives that transfer at a Max of about 2MB a second.
wrote:HD Tune Pro is what I use. Not sure about the LBA part, but I tested a very basic 2GB drive from '97 on it. It's painful testing drives that transfer at a Max of about 2MB a second.
I've used the HD Tune Free. SpeedFan's SMART and HDD features are great.
-redblade7
Rogue Central @ coredumpcentral.org
Norton Disk Doctor is very useful and user-friendly.