Re: Need disk error checker for Windows XP

"Porpoise" <[email protected]> Mon, 27 Mar 2006 15:04:56 +0100
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"Joni Nevalainen" <[email protected]> wrote in message 
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> Mike Easter wrote:
>
>> If you want to read some scary stuff about disk integrity, you should
>> read some of the 'educational' pages at Steve Gibson's SpinRite
>> sections.  SpinRite ain't free and it ain't very cheap.
>
> A bit more digging made me discover this article as well:
> http://www.grcsucks.com/spinrite.htm

Yes. Particularly as you cannot LLF modern drives:

http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/geom/formatUtilities-c.html