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I need a good hard drive diagnostic tool. I don't care if it's free or not. I would like something that takes a really long time and requires a boot disk of some sort.



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actually I remember this guy on tv (can't remember the show) reccomend a hard drrive diagnostic tool to someone. He said it would take almost all day was around $40.

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The manufacturers of the drives usually have diag tools at their sites.
With these tools (Fujitzu, Maxtor, Western Digital etc.) they usuall
have an advanced I/O test that lasts for several hours depending
on the size of the drive. This should do.

On a side note...
I just bought a 160 GB 8MB cache Maxtor drive from Staples yesterday
that was $109 after the $40 mail-in rebate...sweet!
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