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From: Bob on 2 Feb 2006 09:27
I usually repartition/reformat my hard disks with Win2K Disk Manager
periodically to "clean them up", a holdover from the good old days of
SpinRight, etc.

I realize that modern HDs are capable of limited self repair but I
wonder how good that repair process is compared to a sector-by-sector
sweep and mark-bad procedure like SpinRight used to do.

For reasons I do not care about, Win 2K refuses to do this service
anymore so I need something to do it, preferrably in MS-DOS. I do not
want to use anything from Symantec.

Please recommend a reliable utility to sweep and repair defects on a
HD.


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From: Marten Kemp on 2 Feb 2006 09:41
Bob wrote:

> I usually repartition/reformat my hard disks with Win2K Disk Manager
> periodically to "clean them up", a holdover from the good old days of
> SpinRight, etc.
>
> I realize that modern HDs are capable of limited self repair but I
> wonder how good that repair process is compared to a sector-by-sector
> sweep and mark-bad procedure like SpinRight used to do.
>
> For reasons I do not care about, Win 2K refuses to do this service
> anymore so I need something to do it, preferrably in MS-DOS. I do not
> want to use anything from Symantec.
>
> Please recommend a reliable utility to sweep and repair defects on a
> HD.

Use powermax from Maxtor:
http://tinyurl.com/475x6

It'll do a low-level format and remap any bad sectors.
The exe will create a bootable floppy to run the program.
Works on drives from any manufacturer.

It detects all drives on the system even if they're not
configured in the BIOS, so be careful.

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From: Bob on 2 Feb 2006 13:34
On Thu, 02 Feb 2006 14:41:42 GMT, Marten Kemp
<martendotkemp(a)thisplanet-link.net> wrote:

>> Please recommend a reliable utility to sweep and repair defects on a
>> HD.

>Use powermax from Maxtor:
>Works on drives from any manufacturer.

From the website:
"The PowerMax utility is designed to perform diagnostic read/write
verifications on Maxtor and Quantum hard drives."

I have WD drives.

Are you saying it will work properly on WD drives too?


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From: Bob on 2 Feb 2006 14:01
On Thu, 02 Feb 2006 14:41:42 GMT, Marten Kemp
<martendotkemp(a)thisplanet-link.net> wrote:

>Use powermax from Maxtor:
>http://tinyurl.com/475x6

Dontcha just luv it when a major company can't find someone to do
their website correctly.

If you go to the link above, you find a download link at the top of
the page. Click on it and it goes to some blank page. Idiots.

I finally found powermax using Search.


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From: Marten Kemp on 2 Feb 2006 19:00
Bob wrote:

> On Thu, 02 Feb 2006 14:41:42 GMT, Marten Kemp
> <martendotkemp(a)thisplanet-link.net> wrote:
>
>>>Please recommend a reliable utility to sweep and repair defects on a
>>>HD.
>
>>Use powermax from Maxtor:
>>Works on drives from any manufacturer.
>
> From the website:
> "The PowerMax utility is designed to perform diagnostic read/write
> verifications on Maxtor and Quantum hard drives."
>
> I have WD drives.
>
> Are you saying it will work properly on WD drives too?

Yes. I haven't found a manufacturer on whose drives it
won't work[0]. Mind you, if PowerMax finds Something Bad
and you're in a position to get the drive exchanged under
warranty you should run the manufacturer's utility for
*its* error codes before calling.

The "recertification" part remaps the bad spots.

[0] I haven't tried it on really ancient IDE drives, nor
have I tried it on anything larger than 30g because I
don't own any.

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