----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Barker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2004 06:10 Subject: [IMail Forum] WAY OT - Disk tester
> I have a bunch of IDE hard drives pulled for various reasons. Some software > (A format will fix) and some hardware (the trashcan comes to mind). > > Trouble is, they look exactly alike. > > Anyone know a good Disk Exerciser Freeware program to tell them apart? > Windoze or Linux fine. I was given a 60gb IBM drive with some bad spots on it. Right now I'm using my Linux box to run badblocks in destructive read-write mode. The badblocks command nicely pumps out a text file with the numbers of the bad blocks. I don't know of anything comparable in Windows. I know that on one of my Maxtors the partition table got scrambled so that when I tried to format with any OS (Windows or *nix) it would fail. I thought the drive was hooped, but I downloaded the Maxtor utilities, which had a low-level format function, which handily fixed the problem. I'm running the drive right now without a hitch, so I would suggest that may be a route to go (obviously this will depend on manufacturer). -- A. Clausen To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
