Is my Hardrive busted?

[Merlin4458]

All i hear is my Hard drive groaning, when no apps r running. My pc is running uber slow even after a format. Just wondering if this constant groaning and the red light flashing is the cause, or do some hard drives jsut do that for fun.

PS: Are there any progs out that can check my hard drive?

[zaphod]

Try burning out this and running it.

FTool

Then do a fulll scan! It should tell you if there is any problems. Take a look at the smart info as well. That will let you know there has been any errors on the drive in the whole of it life time

[Merlin4458]

ok i have a command exe, and ftool exe, double click em both and a black screen comes up . what do i do

[GAteKeeper]

I think you need to boot off it not try and open it in windows.

GAteKeeper

[Kumagoro]

I think you should back up your stuff quick smart.

[zaphod]

Download this and run the setup with a formated floppy. Reboot from the floppy and run the full test...oh and i wouild back up any thing of value first!


This is a differnet version than the other one i posted. Should work...might not work with SATA discs.

http://odin.netsoc.dkit.ie/~zaphod/ftool_ver194.exe

[weebroonieuk]

yeh mate back up to dvd or another drive quickly , if not even cdrs

if your have files that are too big to fit on one disc use the likes of winrar to split files to fit onto cdrs

[iranu]

Backup