[TriLUG] image of hard drive question

[Carl Crider]

Personal favorite:     www.ultimatebootcd.com



On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Bill Farrow <bill at arrowsreach.com> wrote:

> I agree with Joe on thoroughly testing the drive before putting it
> into active use.  My standard course of action is to download the disk
> diagnostic tools from the manufacturers website and then run the
> extended destructive test at least once to find any bad blocks or DOA
> drive issues.
>
> These diagnostic tools are typically a bootable CD, and under the
> covers they send SMART commands to the drive.  You can also run the
> Linux smartmon tools to do an extended offline test.  The newer
> versions of this tool now work on USB mounted drives as well.
>
> Bill
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