Hard Drive maintenance/repair software

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Hi,

Can anyone recommend a good hard drive maintenance/repair program besides SpinRite.

Thanks,
Mark

 

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Always worth checking the manufacturer site for the drive in question - they usually have diagnostics at the very least and sometimes basic repair tools.

 

If SpinRite can't do it then either ditch the drive in the bin, or get out the wallet for a recovery company.

Even better - get your backups out of storage.

Harry.

 

I used my hard drive repair tool once, I have a Western digital hard drive, it worked very well

 

Download UBCD - http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/. I use SeaTools for Dos (Seagate/Maxtor) to check my drives.

 

I second this, but I used the Seatools because I was repairing a Seagate HD.

 

At work i test wetern digital, Samsung, fujitsu and Seagate drives. So i have a boot cd with all the manufacturers own HDD diagnostic software on it as well as spinrite. I normaly use teh Manufacturers one but sometime they only support certain drives (liek Samsungs latest software wont do our older drives) so Spinrite is used for this. And as a quick test i also have Nortons Disk Doctor, but don't trust that as much.