I've always used Spinrite. It will do two main things for you. First, it will thoroughly inspect every cluster on the drive. This will update the HD firmware with which clusters are still good and which ones are bad. That should fix the problem. The other option is that such a thrashing will reveal any real errors, which in this case is a good thing.
SMART is ok for a first-level warning but in reality not very reliable. In my experience SMART reports just many false positives as it does false negatives. --- Brian On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 7:26 PM, Stan Zaske <swza...@yahoo.com> wrote: > I use Smartmon as well but they haven't supported their product in years. I > bought a new hardrive several years ago which crashed Smartmon whenever I > went into the show device details button. The tech worked with me for days > coding a new version until it worked and I was quite pleased. However, last > fall when I installed my new Seagate 7200.12 and the same problem cropped up > they answered my first email promptly and encouragingly only to ignore me > from that point forth. Guess they don't have time for non-corporate > customers in these financially trying times. > > > > Thane Sherrington wrote: > >> At 08:30 PM 25/06/2009, Anthony Q. Martin wrote: >> >>> What's the best way to determine of an HD is going bad? >>> >> >> Sorry for the last blank email. Smartmontools. >> >> T >> >> >> > >
