john mitchell wrote: >> Aaron S. Joyner wrote: > >> ...you should pull down Maxtor's PowerMax software.... >> http://www.maxtor.com/portal/site/Maxtor/menuite........... > > This sounds like a job for "Ultimate Boot CD". More powerful than a > single program, able to boot without windows, the UBCD serves truth, > justice, and the American idea of free enterprise - it's free. If you > have access to another PC with a CD/R) then download the UBCD from (the > basic version is 107 Meg): > http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ > It has the Maxtor PowerMax software on it and is self-booting - who > needs windows! > I find that the UBCD is a great tool to keep in my pack of testing > tools.
Cool. I'll have to check that out. I ran the PowerMax tester. The short test failed, the long test found errors and I went ahead and let it repair them. Supposedly the disk passes the tests now, but I'm still leery. I hate not being able to trust my system... --[Lance] -- Carolina Spirit Quest http://www.carolinaspiritquest.org/ Celebrate The Circle http://www.celebratethecircle.org/ My LiveJournal http://www.livejournal.com/users/labrown/ GPG Fingerprint: 409B A409 A38D 92BF 15D9 6EEE 9A82 F2AC 69AC 07B9 CACert.org Assurer -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
