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Old September 20th, 2006, 04:53 AM
Garry A. Leslie Garry A. Leslie is offline
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Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Chester England
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Checking Hard Disc reliability

Hey All,
Just a note....... Windows XP checks hard discs.
1. After Start Up right click My Computer
2. Scroll down to Manage
3. Left click
4. Scroll down to Disk Management
5. Left Click
6. All Hard disks will be listed with their status. i.e. Healthy,
active, system, failing, unreadable etc.
You can do a scan check, set active partitions, delete and change drive
letters. A little like the old Fdisk routine.
Also enables those with SATA hard drives to have them recognized and
formatted, ready for use.
Hope this is of use to some of you having difficulties.
Regards from across the pond
Garry