Checking Hard Drive Health

NachT

NachT

NachT

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Hi there,

I've got a laptop here that was running extremely slow, so decided to format. This only made things worse, it takes 2 hours to get 1% formatted on the normal XP format mode ( not Quick mode ). It's a 40GB drive, internal laptop drive.

I've tested the RAM, all seams fine. So took the HDD out and put it into another one of my laptops and ran into all the same problems with things taking 1000x times as long as they should.

Is there a way to test a hard drive for faults? Preferably using a boot able CD?


Thanks.
 
Stick it in another PC as a secondary drive. Use a tool like HD Tune to check for errors.
 
laptop ide is not the same as desktop ide, you'll need a converter

as a general rule though, if you reckon a drive is on it's way out, it most probably is

save the heart-ache and just buy a replacement :)
 
bledd. said:
laptop ide is not the same as desktop ide, you'll need a converter

as a general rule though, if you reckon a drive is on it's way out, it most probably is

save the heart-ache and just buy a replacement :)
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Yeah just tried to connect it to the PC and the pins don't line up ;P

So a new hard drive it is then, any recommended makes to go for?
 
Ahh sorry about that, didn't realise there were different specs for IDE.
 
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