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HDD tools+Software

  • 25-03-2005 11:55pm
    #1
    Nukem
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,082 ✭✭✭


    Heys guys

    Doing a lot a repairs lately to old computers that have old IDE HDDs and im looking for either a DOS program or any other one for fixing/Identifying problems/formatting and all that. Have partition magic 8.0 and its great but some of the HDD's wont respond. Wondering is there any other good ones around.

    Cheers in Advance
    Nukem


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  • #2
    Boggles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,352 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    Nukem wrote:
    Heys guys

    Doing a lot a repairs lately to old computers that have old IDE HDDs and im looking for either a DOS program or any other one for fixing/Identifying problems/formatting and all that. Have partition magic 8.0 and its great but some of the HDD's wont respond. Wondering is there any other good ones around.

    Cheers in Advance
    Nukem

    Barts Bootcd, You probably have heard of it, has all the tools that you are looking for, there is another one called ultimate bootcd aswell. If you want to test the drives for physical errors, most hard drive manufacturers have dos tools available on there websites.


  • #3
    Nukem
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,082 ✭✭✭Nukem


    Boggles wrote:
    Barts Bootcd, You probably have heard of it, has all the tools that you are looking for, there is another one called ultimate bootcd aswell. If you want to test the drives for physical errors, most hard drive manufacturers have dos tools available on there websites.

    heard of it ages ago but never payed much attention. Class man cheers what i need alright.
    Nukem


  • #4
    Capt'n Midnight
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    for low level stuff http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm


  • #5
    Boggles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,352 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    Nukem wrote:
    heard of it ages ago but never payed much attention. Class man cheers what i need alright.
    Nukem

    Yeah I used it before when I was doing something similar as yourself. Avast have bought it off him and are bundling it with a anti virus scanner which comes in handy.Havn't tried it myself yet but you can download it here http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_bart_cd.html

    Here you'll get a 60 day trial, you have to register and it will take about 12 hours for them to get back to you. They'll send you the download link and a file called license.zip. Have downloaded but as yet not tried it. Good look with the pc's anyway.


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