A program that checks your Hard Drives for Reliablitiy

[bobcox- with the Lord]

IBM developed somthing a few yrs back called smart drive. it checks spindle speed and tolerances to see if your drive is going bad.not sure how well it works. but maxtor uses it. Bob

[G-Force]

This program caused me nothing but problems on my new desktop. It was falsely sensing my HD was overheating and would shut down the pc. Assuming it was correct, I let the pc cool off for an hour and restarted it. The pc immediatley shut down as soon as windows loaded and the HD program loaded. It took me a while, I had to get windows to stay open long enought to uninstall it, but I did eventually get it uninstalled. Try this program at your own risk! BTW there is nothing wrong with my HD or my pc... its less than a month old!

[bdayton]

Originally Posted by G-Force

This program caused me nothing but problems on my new desktop. It was falsely sensing my HD was overheating and would shut down the pc. Assuming it was correct, I let the pc cool off for an hour and restarted it. The pc immediatley shut down as soon as windows loaded and the HD program loaded. It took me a while, I had to get windows to stay open long enought to uninstall it, but I did eventually get it uninstalled. Try this program at your own risk! BTW there is nothing wrong with my HD or my pc... its less than a month old!

My best guess is that something in your new PC and/or it's Hard Drive is incompatable with the HDDlife program.
What model and brand of PC did you get? and if possible, can you identify the brand and model of the Hard Drive?

[G-Force]

Its a compaq presario sr1420nx 2.93 celeron 512mb pc2700 ram,
and 80GB HD(samsung sp0802n.)

[bdayton]

Originally Posted by G-Force

Its a compaq presario sr1420nx 2.93 celeron 512mb pc2700 ram,
and 80GB HD(samsung sp0802n.)

You got yourself a top-of-the-line HD using the newer Serial ATA (7 lines including ground) data cable sporting MUCH higher data transfer rates than is possible with the older parallel ATA. I read Samsungs short white paper on the drive and they report no compatability problems and, it is stated to be ATA S.M.A.R.T. compliant. (Which means that it SHOULD work with HDDLIFE).

However, I note that both USB and FireWire use reduced numbers of wires, (Never botherd to count them), and HDDLIFE will not work with these. Unless somebody else has a drive of this type that is working with HDDLIFE, my best guess would be that HDDLIFE will not work with your drive for the same reason.

Only the folks at hddlife.com can tell you for sure.
I thought I could be more help. Sorry.

[Garry A. Leslie]

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