On Friday 10 February 2006 16:41, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > > Anne, Hi, Mikkel > The first test you should run is the one from the drive > manufacturer's web site or from the Ultimate Boot CD. > > http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ > OK - I've got that already burned to disk. > You will tie up a machine while the test is running, but you > will do that with any good drive testing program. The thing > is, these tests are normally customized for the drive firmware, > so you tend to get a good test. This is especially true if you > run the destructive tests. (Write pattern to drive, read it > back, write another pattern. wipes all the data.) Depending > on the software, some will even let you low-level format the > drive. Sometimes this is enough to resurrect a drive. > Hmm - when I'm sure that I can't get anything else useful off it, I'll try that. I've got FC4 installing at the moment on the new drive. I installed the old one as slave, but the FC4 installer tells me that it can't read the partition table. That's odd, because knoppix could read it. Anne
