Software to test hard drive

[Ronnie Gauthier]

On Fri, 7 Dec 2007 01:28:11 +0000 (GMT)
Michael Hipp <michael at hipp.com> wrote:

> Does anyone know of any Linux software to continually test a hard 
> drive (for bad sectors and such)?  I'm thinking of something like 
> the hard drive equivalent of memtest86.
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Michael 

Go to the manufacturers web site. They should have a diagnostic utility 
to test HD's,that will ID bad sectors and mark them among other things. 
The ones I use are on a bootable floppy so OS would not matter.

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Ronnie Gauthier <ronnie at instaguide.com>