[BBLISA] windows disk diagnostics

[Eric Smith]

I'm actually not confident that the drive is physically going, but
certainly something isn't right.  Which is why I'm looking for tools
that will repair the Filesystem along with something that will check
the physical media.  The first is just something that I think would be
good (I'm betting that there are better tools out there than scandisk)
and would use on a regular basis.  The other... well, it could be
handy, even if I don't want to have to use it.

I'll poke around today in what I can get from that SMART utility and
go from there.  I don't know if Seagate has that program, but I have
heard of others who have gotten a drive sent before the old is
returned (with a pending charge on the credit card to secure the drive
just in case.)  The drive is still under warranty so there is no issue
there if I have to go the RMA route.

Eric

On Feb 3, 2008 9:25 AM, Edward Ned Harvey <bblisa2 at nedharvey.com> wrote:
>
> If you assume your drive is bad, look into drive RMA, and satisfy the
> diagnostic criteria of the manufacturer to return the drive as defective,
> most manufacturers will offer you some capacity to receive an advance
> replacement, so you can (hopefully) transfer data directly from your old
> drive to the new one, before returning the old one.