What brand are they, most vendors provide tools for this very reason, check the vendor website for a tool specific to the make of drive. Otherwise, there are many opensource tools to access the smart parameters and perform some diags on discs like Hirens that have several tools on the iso.
From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:oliver.marsh...@g2support.com] Sent: Monday, February 28, 2011 1:37 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Disk checking tool for Windows Hi Can anyone recommend a hard disk checking tool for Windows that will give an external disk a good going over? Ideally free/open source :) We have 8 disks from a server that have apparently failed but we believe it's the raid card. To be sure we need to thoroughly check the disks before sending them back. Olly ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com<mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
