How do u test your HDD for errors?

[scottyboy]

Like theres memtest86 for memory, what is there for the HDD? I know theres scandisk and utils like defrag but they dont tell you if your HDD has "physical" issues.

thanks

 

[Greenlizard0]

I'd like to know what programs are out there too. The only thing that I found that told me of physical problems was Hdtune for temperatures, and the recovery software I used (Getdataback or something), which told me about cyclic redundancy errors and sector errors too.

 

[mattyrigby00]

try hd tune out, it has both an error scan, and something to read SMART data. (assuming SMART is turned on in the bios).

 

[rpstewart]

Each drive manufacturer has a set of diagnostic tools on their website. These are as good as anything for all round testing.