Hard drive problems

[Red and White]

is there a utility that can run from boot that will check the hard disk for errors/repair them and is better than windows chkdsk?

 

[IndexRated]

It's not from boot, but I found HD tune -- http://www.hdtune.com/ to be a pretty good tool.

 

[marms]

Most of the drive manufacturers do utilities to check there drives but they usually wipe the drive and leave it as new.