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External hard drive checker

thecelt · 2011-02-08 17:46:09

I have a few hard drives i want to hook up as external hard drives to check for errors/bad sectors, having vista and it giving me issues about running chkdsk, is there any good freeware out there that could be used for this purpose?

08-02-2011 5:46pm

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thecelt

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I have a few hard drives i want to hook up as external hard drives to check for errors/bad sectors,
having vista and it giving me issues about running chkdsk,
is there any good freeware out there that could be used for this purpose?

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#2 08-02-2011 10:37pm

Fysh

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You could download the Windows 7 Repair Disc and use the recovery console that way.

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#3 08-02-2011 11:44pm

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if windows boots then hdtune will do surface scan on the drives and read some SMART info if the USB controller passes it on

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