Download the Hirens tools. You can make a bootable CD or thumb drive with these tools. Boot from it and choose to run DOS programs. Then click hard disk tools. Then click more. And then choose Sea tools. Run the long test. The Hirens CD also includes many other tools.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Steve Tomporowski Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2012 12:02 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [H] Disk Analysis Tools I'm looking for a tool to determine if my C drive is failing or not. Free or cheap is preferable. The long story is below. Thanks...Steve Here's the story: This week, we're talking Win7 64bit, Win7 wants to chkdsk my C drive at every boot. If I let it do the chkdsk, it will reboot clean, however, after shutdown, it wants to chkdsk again. So maybe my boot drive is dying. I want to be sure what's going on, so I download the WD data lifeguard. This installs fine, runs and says that my WD boot drive is fine, but my 2TB Seagate is failing. Excuse me if I'm a little in doubt about that. So I download Seatools and figure I'd see the reverse, which, in the end, would do nothing for me. Seatools is a freaking awkward install, besides needing .net 4.0, it has around 200 windows you have to click 'OK' on. Then for the topper, it doesn't work. It hangs on detecting ATA drives. Seagate's Forum has at least two threads where this problem shows up (stxcom.exe has stopped working...), but, since Nov of last year, nobody from Seagate has answered the question. So I head to Gizmo to find some freeware. CrystalDiskInfo can't read the SMART from either drive. HDDScan and Diskcheckup likewise.
