>>Google finds tons of programs that supposedly will check my hard drive for physical "health". But I am not ready to trust these off the bad. Has anybody personally used a program that actually did check the drive (and didn't format it - concern I have <g>) and was helpful?
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>>Please let me know. TIA.
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>The HD manufactures usually have diagnostic utilities on their website
Thank you. I will see if I can find out the name of the drive manufacturer. I believe you have to open the cover.
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