Mark Hull-Richter spake the following on 4/12/2007 11:15 AM: > I recently added a Seagate 400Gb SATA drive to my system, and it has > been behaving strangely since I put it in. for one thing, the BIOS > S.M.A.R.T. came up with a warning the last time I booted with it > enabled, saying that I should backup my data and replace the disk (!). > > I still have not made any irreversible data transfers to this drive, and > I have some time yet to take it back, but I'd like to know for sure that > it needs it, or at least have some reasonable evidence of failure. > > What is a good program out there that exercises a disk to give some > assurance of errors or lack thereof? > > Thanks. > The ultimate boot cd (http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/) has all the manufacturer test and verify programs in a bootable dos cd. It comes in handy. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!