On 2011/02/04 11:02, Jeffrey Engle so eloquently wrote:
I have a 9 year old 3.5 WD 60gb hard drive and as I often get disks
like this in trade or whatever, Is there a software program out there
that's very good at judging the "hardware health" of a disk?

One thing you can do with them is to erase them with the write zeros option. It won't tell you the health of the drive but it will mark out the bad sectors.

Tina

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