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742779 2009-01-28 12:06:00 I've just bought a new hard drive to replace my exisiting one as my boot drive. What tests should i do to check whether the new drive is faulty/bad sectors etc or not?
I've done the obvious, Seatools and WD diagnostics...are there any others I could try before i switch drives?
Thanks
EviLClouD (12981)
742780 2009-01-28 17:08:00 Why bother? A harddrive will fail when its good and ready too. May be 7 days, may be 7 years

The only thing you can do to prepare yourself for impending failure is to make sure you back up needed data regularly
Myth (110)
742781 2009-01-28 21:01:00 Turning on SMART goes a long way to notifying you of impending doom :) Chilling_Silence (9)
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