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- From: ebido@bio.vu.nl (Etienne Bido)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: *** HARD DRIVE HELP NEEDED! PLEASE READ! ***
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.083832.16213@bio.vu.nl>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 08:38:32 GMT
- References: <eaeu209-041192163007@714-725-3169.nts.uci.edu>
- Organization: VU Biology, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- eaeu209@orion.oac.uci.edu (Rodney G. Ramos) writes:
- : I've posted this before, but the response wasn't that great. So I thought
- : I'd give this another try before I give up on this news group. Here's
- : my situation:
- :
- : I'm planning to buy a used hard drive but I want to test it to see if it's
- : still in good working condition. Other than giving it power to see if it
- : spins up, what other test can I do? Are there utilities/methods I can use?
- :
- : Any help would be appreciated.
-
- Well, the first thing you could do is run a disk program to test for
- bad blocks. There are many (non)commercial products that do this.
-
- Then you could run some diskspeed tester to test if the disk performance
- is anyway near the normal/expected values. Again there are plenty progams
- that do this.
-
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