Brodie
21-10-2007 02:11:38
I was wondering what program I should use to check the health and total use hours of my hard drives. My C is two crappier 160 gigs in a raid 0. Its been goin for about 3 years now so I want to see if I should replace them before they take a dive and I lose everything.
Completely unrelated
For some reason, in the past couple of days, firefox forgot to tell utorrent to open my .torrenturl==http://=http:///url files. When I click on a file from a website, it saves the .torrenturl==http://=http:///url file where it usually does but it quit actually opening them directly with utorrent so I have to click "Open" in the firefox download manager. Last week it worked just fine. Any suggestions?
gnznroses
21-10-2007 21:56:37
Right-click My Computer, choose Manage and then click Disk Managemrnt. It'll list drives' health there. I also know that Speedfan reports drive health, as does Diskeeper.
phriq
22-10-2007 09:36:39
When I worked at the Geek Squad they used the Hitachi Drive Fitness Test which can be found here
http//www.softpedia.com/get/System/Hard-Disk-Utils/IBM-Hitachi-Drive-Fitness-Test.shtml
And also the seagate seatools tests that can be found here
http//www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/downloads/seatools
both tests run outside of Windows and I felt were pretty good. Even with me not working at Geek Squad anymore but doing a side repair i have found them to be pretty good.