WD's Diagnostics are about as good as you can get for WD drives. All the other
manufacturer's except Toshiba have their own diagnostics which are free
downloads. (I do not recommend Toshiba notebook drives for this reason, among
others.) Hitachi's Drive Fitness Test, originally IBM's, will work on any brand
of drive, although it limits some of what can be done if the drive is neither
Hitachi nor IBM.
There are also free programs that will report whether or not bad sectors have
been replaced by spares, an important criterion of drive health. I do not have
info about these programs immediately at my disposal... Ben Myers
On Fri, 25 Aug 2006 03:44:40 -0500, Bruce <> wrote:
>Speaking of drives going south:
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>I use Western Digital LifeGuard Diagnostics to test my two WD IDE drives.
>Is there a better program, or others I could also run as a double check?
>My drives are about 3 1/2 years old.
>
>Will the WD LifeGuard Diagnostics work on non-WD drives? If not, are there
>programs that will work on more than one brand drive, or must I find the
>manufacturer's own drive tester (if available)?
>
>Thanks
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