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Ive been doing a bit searching and i think you might have a few problems finding a utility to try with the toshiba drive. Heres some possible solutions:

Toshiba paired with Samsung - give it a shot...
(http://www.samsung.com/)
Disk Manager 10.02 (08.30.2001): http://www.samsung.com/Products/HardDiskDrive/utilities/index.htm
Also: HUTIL (Diagnostic Utility for New Drives) v1.15 (08.19.2003): http://www.samsung.com/Products/HardDiskDrive/utilities/hutil.htm
SHDIAG (Diagnostic for Old Drives) v1.25: http://www.samsung.com/Products/HardDiskDrive/utilities/shdiag.htm
SUTIL (Utility for Old Drives) 1.01 (09.13.2002): http://www.samsung.com/Products/HardDiskDrive/utilities/sutil.htm

Also found a link here that some guy recommends
http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm

One more load of possible utilities

Take your pick :

http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm#DFT
http://www.maxtor.com/en/support/products/index.htm
http://support.wdc.com/download/index.asp
http://www.fcpa.fujitsu.com/support/hard-drives/software_utilities.html
http://www.fcpa.fujitsu.com/download/hard-drives/#diagnostic
http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm#DFT
http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/download.htm
http://www.seagate.com/support/seatools/index.html
http://www.samsungelectronics.com/hdd/support/utilities/utilities_index.html

another useful one : DBan

http://dban.sourceforge.net/