Re: Need disk error checker for Windows XP

Frog Prince wrote:
> "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.
> 
> 

Yeah actually it was an internal drive to begin with.  Guess I'll have 
to do that.