I'm looking for a tool to determine if my C drive is failing or not.
Free or cheap is preferable. The long story is below.
Thanks...Steve
Here's the story: This week, we're talking Win7 64bit, Win7 wants to
chkdsk my C drive at every boot. If I let it do the chkdsk, it will
reboot clean, however, after shutdown, it wants to chkdsk again. So
maybe my boot drive is dying. I want to be sure what's going on, so I
download the WD data lifeguard. This installs fine, runs and says that
my WD boot drive is fine, but my 2TB Seagate is failing. Excuse me if
I'm a little in doubt about that. So I download Seatools and figure I'd
see the reverse, which, in the end, would do nothing for me. Seatools
is a freaking awkward install, besides needing .net 4.0, it has around
200 windows you have to click 'OK' on. Then for the topper, it doesn't
work. It hangs on detecting ATA drives. Seagate's Forum has at least
two threads where this problem shows up (stxcom.exe has stopped
working...), but, since Nov of last year, nobody from Seagate has
answered the question. So I head to Gizmo to find some freeware.
CrystalDiskInfo can't read the SMART from either drive. HDDScan and
Diskcheckup likewise.
- [H] Disk Analysis Tools Steve Tomporowski
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