HDD diagnostic program

[lopkinfop]

I bought a Samsung F1 1Tb about a month ago, recently i have had some read/write errors so tryed to run chkdsk on it, it gets to around 3/4 the way through and doesn`t progress any further.

i have tryed to run the samsung disk utility but cant get it to boot (run out of memory errors as well as others) i read about a program called HDAT2 which i can boot from not in vmware with the hdd connected to a USB), although to test for surface errors it will take about 60 days or so to get through the Tb.

does anyone know of a utility that would be acceptable to samsung/rexo for an RMA but wont take an eternity

or how to get the samsung utility to work, a google didn`t show any answers

 

[lopkinfop]

i`ve tryed running it on 4 different computers and vmware, a google search showed lots of others with the same problem with no obvious solution i could find

 

[lopkinfop]

thanks

HDTune should show up any bad sectors and if there are loads then it should be enough for an RMA

Thanks

I`m running it now, i would imagine lots of errors