[TriLUG] image of hard drive question

[James Jones]

I have that cd in my collection as well as ebcd, hiren's boot cd, caine, etc..

jcj

On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Carl Crider <c.crider at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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