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Old 05-14-2009, 04:21 AM   #6 (permalink)
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Re: installing new hard drive and formatting
You can download and run drive diagnostics to test the hard drive:

Seagate/Maxtor http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/sup...loads/seatools
Western Digital http://support.wdc.com/download/
IBM/Hitachi http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm#DFT
Fujitsu/Seimens http://www.fujitsu.com/us/services/c...utilities.html

Free Hard Drive Testing Applications:
HD Tune
HDAT2 (Diagnostics and bad sector recovery)
MHDD Low-level Diagnostics
Bootable Hitachi Drive Fitness Test Floppy or CD Image (works on most drives)

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