The best hard disk utility is...

silversurfer

silversurfer

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Ive been trying to stumble across something which may help keep various drives in order.
Ive found Hard disk sentinel which is quite good for pointing out problems but does nothing to solve it really.

I also tried Parted magic on a usb stick. Thats a decent collection and useful for SSD wipes.
However I have a hard disk drive with some kind of error. If I try chkdsk it will blue screen. If I try to copy the partitions or clone the drive it also fails. Parted Magic programs quit the attempt and returns to desktop.
The drives when used appear to work, store data but I cant backup them up easily so I can wipe them or investigate the presumably bad sectors.

Short question is, any programs that may be helpful would be good to hear about

Just a simple 1 pass bad block marker would be ideal. None of the data is essential so if its marked bad so be it but it cant be left as an open error
 
Good question but personally i have never ever needed hard disk utilities, programs or/software, i guess i don't really store sensitive or work related stuff on my pc, mind you if i did i would simply make back ups to other hard drives or even a pen/flash drive, not sure about cloud related back ups?. I'm sure there may be someone here that could advise you much better than i. Also i can't think of any time that i had a bad working hard drive that needed tweaking or keeping in shape?.
 
If a drive is giving you jip, bin it (or rather recycle via your local municipal recycling centre :cool:). From experience drives go from a bit dicky to FUBAR invariably, and when you can least afford the hassle.
 
Yea I agree faults on drives dont often improve. I have another which goes clicking bonkers if you go to a certain sectors but otherwise 400gb of the 500gb is fine so I just left that partition offline and use the rest for temp storage

I tried HD tune and it does scan the drive in quick mode and says yep all fine. If I try slow check, it turned the screen pure blue, then overlayed garbbled white text & for the first time I heard my motherboard onboard speaker beep and it reset itself.
This is a drive which plays movies, games pretty much any file without a problem so its a bit extreme to do that on a check.

I will try Spinrite, thanks for the suggestions :)
 
Have you tried it in another machine, just in case the actual drive isn't at fault? I've got two drives sat on my desk that both show errors on even just a quick scan with HDTune
 
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