>>>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
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>Thank you. I will see if I can find out the name of the drive manufacturer. I believe you have to open the cover.
For individual drives, you can usually see the drive make and model number in Device Manager.
If you have an array, you can usually see information about the individual drives via the RAID storage manager. On my system, I have 2 drives mirrored in RAID 1 on an Intel ICH10R motherboard RAID controller. In Device Manager they appear as "Volume0" under "Disk Drives", but the Intel Matrix Storage Console shows hardware information for the drives that are members of the array.
Regards. Al
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