Catestrophic failure

[Michael Hipp]

Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> That's next.  I remember running an exhaustive memtest after last
> time, and nothing happening bad.  This time I have to figure our if
> something is hurting me.  Perhaps I'll have to write a tool which
> sector-by-sector checks writing 1's and 0's.  Yes, I know there are
> tools to do this, but none that I know of which save the data from the
> sector and then write it back when done testing... :)

This one will do that, but it is not free. I've had good success with it.
   http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm

Michael