HDD going bad?--How to verify

[Jesse]

Hello,

I recently had a problem with some recordings being deleted by sage which it turns out could be related to a problem with my HDD.

Here is the response I got from Narflex:

I don't think it's a bug in SageTV. Something's probably wrong with your hard disk. I looked through your logs, and basically, at one point the filesystem decided to report that E-Ring and Lost were both 0 bytes in size (which in fact they were not). That most likely means something is going bad in your hard drive. I'd highly suggest doing a scan on your G:\ drive to see if anything is wrong with it. Just wanted to give you a heads up on what I found.

My question is: What do I use to scan my HDD to see if it is going bad?

Any suggestions are welcome.

TIA

Jesse

[stanger89]

Right click on your disc in My Computer -> Properties -> Tools -> Check Now.
Check both boxes and click start.

[AboveUnrefined]

http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ may give you more detailed responses and diagnostics. Beware of the "click of death".

[Polypro]

Speedfan can read the S.M.A.R.T. data from the disk, if you have it enabled in the BIOS.

P

[Opus4]

Go to the hard drive manufacturer's web site -- they should diagnostic utilities you can download... and they will usually want you to run their own programs before trying to get a replacement, if the drive is bad.

- Andy

[Jesse]

Thanks folks,

On the way home I remembered the utilities that came with the seagate drive (as mentioned by opus) so I gave them a try. There were three levels of diagnostics. S.M.A.R.T scan, Quick Scan and Thorough Scan (or something along those lines). I ran all three and they came back with no troubles found.

I then took stanger's advice and ran the windows diagnostic. It took quite a while to run but ended with a simple message that it was done. No info regarding what it found. I am assuming no news is good news on this one.

I'm going to have to figure that my drive is ok.

Thanks again,

Jesse