How to check for bad sectors?

[ultim]

Hi
ive just bought a used harddrive and need to check if it has any bad sectors or any problems with it. How do i do it?

thanks

 

[smids]

Either use the diagnostic disk from the HDU manufacturer's website or plug it in and run a chkdsk on it from within your current Windows. Check what drive letter it has been assigned and open up command prompt and type at the prompt:

chkdsk d: /p /r (if the drive letter is 'd') etc.

Probably better to use the manufacturer utility though - see the HDU sticky.