These days, all I use is CHKDSK. Lots of parameters to work with. Are you going to test these drives while they are attached to different RAID controllers? If you suspect a controller to be bad, then all testing done through that controller will be suspect as well...
If all 8 drives "failed" suddenly, I would also suspect the controller rather than the drives, and would simply swap controllers to test, or connect all the drives to a different system and see how they behaved there. *ASB *(Find me online via About.Me <http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker/bio>) *Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage... * On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 3:37 AM, Oliver Marshall < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > > > Can anyone recommend a hard disk checking tool for Windows that will give > an external disk a good going over? Ideally free/open source J > > > > We have 8 disks from a server that have apparently failed but we believe > it’s the raid card. To be sure we need to thoroughly check the disks before > sending them back. > > > Olly > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
