"All you're out is the time"...which can be considerable if you have a lot of bad sectors on the drive. I once ran it for over a week and it was still stuck trying to read the first block/sector - whatever each individual icon represents.
-----Original Message----- From: Angus Scott-Fleming [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 3:16 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Disk checking tool for Windows On 10 Mar 2011 at 12:45, Angus Scott-Fleming wrote: > On 28 Feb 2011 at 8:37, Oliver Marshall wrote: > > > 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. > > Not free or open-source, but I use SpinRite from grc.com. $89/license, 4 > licenses gets you a site-license. I have managed to recover data off failed disks more than once using SpinRite. Don't try to run it on a USB drive, though, Mount the drive internally and boot from the SpinRite CD (downloadable as an ISO after you purchase it). Moneyback license if it doesn't work for you, so all you're out is the time. Angus ~ 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 ~ 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
