Re: Need disk error checker for Windows XP

Porpoise wrote:
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>> Porpoise wrote:
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>>> "Borgholio" <[email protected]> wrote in message 
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>>> So, if you are getting bad sector errors as soon as you add data to 
>>> the disc, I would suspect the HDD of having problems.
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>> Yes I've known that the disc had problems for a week now.  :)  That's 
>> why I need a better program than chkdsk to run a thorough diagnostic.
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> In that case, you need the utility software from the disc manufacturer 
> (which you should be able to download from their website for the 
> specific drive). It may (dependant on the manufacturer) include utility 
> to get the drive firmware to re-map the bad sectors to spare sectors 
> hidden on the drive (if there are any left) and/or write zeros to the 
> entire drive and enabling the firmware checks to find the bad sectors 
> and map them to spare sectors itself. Other than that, if there are many 
> bad sector errors occurring, there's not much you can do other than 
> scrap the drive (drives are cheap these days). Certainly a lot cheaper 
> than the time which it would take to recover the data from a screwed-up 
> drive.

It's a Maxtor external drive, and their diagnostic software doesn't 
cover external drives.  :-/  I'll have to search around their site.