Hard Disk Bad Sector/Fault Analysis Tool
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I have doubt that my hard disk is having problem since few days. I had Windows 7 installed earlier, which was working fine, soon it started giving BSOD (Blue Screen Of Death). I reinstalled Windows 7, but didn't work. I tried installing Win xp SP2, still failure. Somehow I am able to install Win 2000, which freezes after sometimes, but it runs fine in safe mode. So, please suggest me a tool to analyse my hard disk and find out whether it is faulty and does it have any bad sectors or not. I have 5 partitions in hard disk. Please suggest such a tool that supports Win 2000. Other option is I have Ubuntu Live CD, I can run linux off that CD without any installation. So, if there is any linux utility, please suggest that as well. Thanks in Advance.
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I have doubt that my hard disk is having problem since few days. I had Windows 7 installed earlier, which was working fine, soon it started giving BSOD (Blue Screen Of Death). I reinstalled Windows 7, but didn't work. I tried installing Win xp SP2, still failure. Somehow I am able to install Win 2000, which freezes after sometimes, but it runs fine in safe mode. So, please suggest me a tool to analyse my hard disk and find out whether it is faulty and does it have any bad sectors or not. I have 5 partitions in hard disk. Please suggest such a tool that supports Win 2000. Other option is I have Ubuntu Live CD, I can run linux off that CD without any installation. So, if there is any linux utility, please suggest that as well. Thanks in Advance.
Anythign that can read S.M.A.R.T.[^] data, e.g. SIW[^]. With the amount of error correction on hard drives, it's usually to late when the OS notices. SMART data is monitored by th HDD itself. Reading it requires some creative interpretaiton, as it is used differently by different manufacturers. Still, a failing disk typically gives frequently increasing read faults. Other than that,
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I have doubt that my hard disk is having problem since few days. I had Windows 7 installed earlier, which was working fine, soon it started giving BSOD (Blue Screen Of Death). I reinstalled Windows 7, but didn't work. I tried installing Win xp SP2, still failure. Somehow I am able to install Win 2000, which freezes after sometimes, but it runs fine in safe mode. So, please suggest me a tool to analyse my hard disk and find out whether it is faulty and does it have any bad sectors or not. I have 5 partitions in hard disk. Please suggest such a tool that supports Win 2000. Other option is I have Ubuntu Live CD, I can run linux off that CD without any installation. So, if there is any linux utility, please suggest that as well. Thanks in Advance.
It may not be your hard disk - if re-install did not help, then it may well be memory / heat / motherboard related rather than disk (given that install does a cursory disk check and marks bad sectors).
If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends? Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines. If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
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I have doubt that my hard disk is having problem since few days. I had Windows 7 installed earlier, which was working fine, soon it started giving BSOD (Blue Screen Of Death). I reinstalled Windows 7, but didn't work. I tried installing Win xp SP2, still failure. Somehow I am able to install Win 2000, which freezes after sometimes, but it runs fine in safe mode. So, please suggest me a tool to analyse my hard disk and find out whether it is faulty and does it have any bad sectors or not. I have 5 partitions in hard disk. Please suggest such a tool that supports Win 2000. Other option is I have Ubuntu Live CD, I can run linux off that CD without any installation. So, if there is any linux utility, please suggest that as well. Thanks in Advance.
Scandisk comes with windows and will do the job. I don't have win2k available, but you need to enable the option to do a detailed/surface/physical scan. This will take a while because it's trying to read/write every sector on the drive. If you get any bad sectors reported the drive is junk and should be kept powered off until you're ready to copy your data onto the replacement.
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It may not be your hard disk - if re-install did not help, then it may well be memory / heat / motherboard related rather than disk (given that install does a cursory disk check and marks bad sectors).
If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends? Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines. If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
I am sure its not memory, I tried memtest. Motherboard can be the reason, but don't know how to check if motherboard is faulty. Hard disk is very old, so I doubt it to be the reason.
If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
Nice Quote... :P
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I have doubt that my hard disk is having problem since few days. I had Windows 7 installed earlier, which was working fine, soon it started giving BSOD (Blue Screen Of Death). I reinstalled Windows 7, but didn't work. I tried installing Win xp SP2, still failure. Somehow I am able to install Win 2000, which freezes after sometimes, but it runs fine in safe mode. So, please suggest me a tool to analyse my hard disk and find out whether it is faulty and does it have any bad sectors or not. I have 5 partitions in hard disk. Please suggest such a tool that supports Win 2000. Other option is I have Ubuntu Live CD, I can run linux off that CD without any installation. So, if there is any linux utility, please suggest that as well. Thanks in Advance.
Usually, when you reboot, you should be able to run system diagnostics by pressing the F2 or F12 key(s). There you can run disk diagnostics.
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I have doubt that my hard disk is having problem since few days. I had Windows 7 installed earlier, which was working fine, soon it started giving BSOD (Blue Screen Of Death). I reinstalled Windows 7, but didn't work. I tried installing Win xp SP2, still failure. Somehow I am able to install Win 2000, which freezes after sometimes, but it runs fine in safe mode. So, please suggest me a tool to analyse my hard disk and find out whether it is faulty and does it have any bad sectors or not. I have 5 partitions in hard disk. Please suggest such a tool that supports Win 2000. Other option is I have Ubuntu Live CD, I can run linux off that CD without any installation. So, if there is any linux utility, please suggest that as well. Thanks in Advance.
Try some googling about ubuntu and badblocks Preferrably use it on the disk device, not the partitions themselves. i.e. if you see /dev/xxx, /dev/xxx1, /dev/xxx2, you have the xxx disk with partitions xxx1 and xxx2. You can easily identify them using the palimpsest disk utility that lies around in the menu. Of course you boot from the CD and run it as live CD. Paul
