Boot up hard drive diagnostic programmes?

Schizophonic · 22 Sep 2011 at 21:42

Looking to rebuild an old laptop that has IDE hard drive, every time I go about installing an OS - it seems to crash.

I dont have an IDE > SATA 2.5" hard drive adapter to do some testing. Anyone got any suggestions what software I can use to burn onto a CD or USB memory stick to do some hard drive checks ?

JayMax · 22 Sep 2011 at 22:36

The hard drive manufacturers diagnostic software?

Mikoyan · 23 Sep 2011 at 13:09

JayMax said:
The hard drive manufacturers diagnostic software?

This man speaks the truth!

Schizophonic · 23 Sep 2011 at 19:00

Its a seagate one I believe but do they do boot up one that I can run from USB or CD?

JayMax · 23 Sep 2011 at 20:29

http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/downloads/seatools

SeaTools for DOS
SeaTools for DOS tests SATA or ATA drives from a bootable CD-ROM or floppy. It can test a SATA (Serial ATA) or older ATA (PATA/IDE) interface hard drive. Because the software boots to its own operating system you can test your drive regardless of the OS installed on it. You can even test a new or completely blank drive. In addition, this version offers limited repair and data erasure.