DarkSerge Posted May 10, 2019 Share Posted May 10, 2019 Greetings! I just got myself a USB adapter for SATA/IDE internal drives. I have a few old drives laying around and now I can hook them up and see if they're any good. Any good generic hard drive diagnostic tools anybody would recommend to check out these drives to make sure they're working properly? They all work well enough I can read them with the adapter but I want to scan and test them to see what condition they are in or if there are any issues. They've been in storage for a while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted May 10, 2019 Share Posted May 10, 2019 If on Linux, install smartmontools and run this (replace sda with drive letter): sudo smartctl -a /dev/sda | less Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted May 10, 2019 Share Posted May 10, 2019 Gsmartcontrol is a graphical tool to do the same. Here are some Window's alternatives to scan drives for bad sectors: https://www.howtogeek.com/134735/how-to-see-if-your-hard-drive-is-dying/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkSerge Posted May 10, 2019 Author Share Posted May 10, 2019 I'm on Windows 10. Sorry, forgot to mention that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted May 10, 2019 Share Posted May 10, 2019 Greetings! I just got myself a USB adapter for SATA/IDE internal drives. I have a few old drives laying around and now I can hook them up and see if they're any good. Any good generic hard drive diagnostic tools anybody would recommend to check out these drives to make sure they're working properly? They all work well enough I can read them with the adapter but I want to scan and test them to see what condition they are in or if there are any issues. They've been in storage for a while. https://www.seagate.com/gb/en/support/downloads/seatools/ Most manufacturers have special tools to check the state of their drives. Like the Sea Tools for Seagate drives. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted May 10, 2019 Share Posted May 10, 2019 I'm on Windows 10. Sorry, forgot to mention that. In that case, Start>Run>cmd wmic diskdrive get status Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkSerge Posted May 10, 2019 Author Share Posted May 10, 2019 I have a Seagate, 2 Maxtors, a Hitachi, and one more I'm not sure of since it's in use but might remove it soonish. So something that's decently universal would be best since I have different brands and makes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raymac46 Posted May 11, 2019 Share Posted May 11, 2019 (edited) https://www.lifewire...rograms-2626183 SeaTools looks like the way to go. I use Speccy fot a quick look at all hardware including drives. Edited May 11, 2019 by raymac46 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted May 11, 2019 Share Posted May 11, 2019 Well as I mentioned on post #6, there is a way to use a built in windows tool called wmic to do this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkSerge Posted May 12, 2019 Author Share Posted May 12, 2019 I downloaded SeaTools. I believe I used it before I put an SSD in my current system. I will check out WMIC also. I haven't heard about it until I posted this so I'll give it a look as well. Thank you for your input everyone. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted May 12, 2019 Share Posted May 12, 2019 I downloaded SeaTools. I believe I used it before I put an SSD in my current system. I will check out WMIC also. I haven't heard about it until I posted this so I'll give it a look as well. Thank you for your input everyone. Great! Let us know how it goes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkSerge Posted May 12, 2019 Author Share Posted May 12, 2019 SeaTools only recognizes one of the drives when connected through the USB adapter, so looks like I'll have to learn some WMIC commands. I tested an old 40GB Hitachi drive and it failed the short and long read tests. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goretsky Posted May 13, 2019 Share Posted May 13, 2019 Hello, Western Digital's (formerly Hitachi Global Storage Technology's) Drive Fitness Test program might be of interest, as well as CrystalDiskInfo. Regards, Aryeh Goretsky 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zlim Posted May 13, 2019 Share Posted May 13, 2019 Info on the first program mentioned above https://www.lifewire.com/windows-drive-fitness-test-review-2624565 Portable version of CrystalDiskInfo https://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/crystaldiskinfo_portable 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkSerge Posted May 17, 2019 Author Share Posted May 17, 2019 CrystalDiskInfo detects everything just fine. Even hooked up my previous system drive before my SSD and it's got a few cautionary marks. I'll give Windows Drive Fitness Test a try Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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