Re: Need disk error checker for Windows XP

"Borgholio"
| >>>
| >>> 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.
| >>
| >>
| >> 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.
| >
| >
| > 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.

Open the 'box' likely the HDD is a standard Maxtor you can mount inside your
PC to do the deed.