chkdsk scandisk type programme

[Tom]

What's a good utility for taking a long, hard look at my hard drive, detecting any bad sectors, and keeping my computer the feck away from writing anything near those sectors?

I just had a CRC problem on a uTorrent file I was downloading (fairly big one), deleting some of its contents was the only solution. Reading online it seems that regular uTorrent access may sometimes reduce the life of a HD.

I tried searching but you always find a million crap programmes all saying how brilliant they are, I'd rather take advice from people I know.

 

[old.Osy]

The one provided by the hard drive manufacturer. That's right, visit their website, go to utilities or downloads, and you will find manufacturer produced and endorsed software to check-up on your disk and perform other tasks such as:

Low-level format
Bad sector scanning
Disk health checks

...and many more.

Be sure to drop by the website of your disk's manufacturer today!

 

[Yaka]

as above manufacturer util are preety good & HDDScan might be what your looking for and the guy behind is preety helpful as well

 

[Tom]

Sod it, its starting to crash a bit more frequently. Before I lose everything I'm going to order a new HD.

I have a Gigabyte GA P35C DS3R main board. My current HD is a 1TB Samsung HD103SJ Spinpoint F3.

Can someone recommend a drive from Scan.co.uk: Computer Hardware that I could replace it with?

Also, what software can I use to copy the whole lot across, so that I can simply unplug the old one when done, and continue as before?

 

[old.Osy]

Lot of people started complaining about the F3s... I have the F1 flavour, 1 year and 3 months now, going solid, no issues.

So, personal experience wise, try finding this:

Newegg.com - SAMSUNG Spinpoint F1 HD103UJ 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive

Acronis True Home Image is what you need, in terms of "cloning".

No clue on the price, but you can "find" it as "freeware" in most places.

 

[caLLous]

Bit late but I'll throw HD Tune into the mix, and also FreeFileSync for syncing and backup purposes. I haven't used it to backup an entire drive but I don't know why it wouldn't do it well - just set up the source folder and the destination and tell it to do it's thing.

 

[Influenza]

I have a F3 and its crap , ran every diagnostic i can find and it picks up no errors , but every few days the files on it will corrupt.

I did a new install of windows the other day and it lasted about 4 hours then when i rebooted , Chkdsk started saying drive needs to be checked for consitency and 3 files were corrupt and there was about 40-50 indexes deleted and it wouldnt boot into windows anymore , just kept restarting when you get to the log in screen.

I wanna send it back to Ebuyer but my m8 reckons i might have a problem doing that if the diagnostics arent coming up with any errors.