DangBruhY Posted March 23, 2010 Report Share Posted March 23, 2010 I'm looking for a hard drive diagnostic and repair tool. Right now, we are using spin-rite. It's an older version and it's taking 4 days to scan this hard drive.What is everyone else using? Is there any decent free tools out there? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Likwid Posted March 23, 2010 Report Share Posted March 23, 2010 I use chkdsk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jblosser Posted March 23, 2010 Report Share Posted March 23, 2010 Native file system?chkdsk or fsck, depending.gparted will also check drives - ntfs, ext*, hfs+, reiser*, fat*, jfs, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flounder Posted March 23, 2010 Report Share Posted March 23, 2010 Explain the problems you are having and we could better suggest the proper software. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DangBruhY Posted March 23, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 23, 2010 Hard drive failure is what I'm dealing with now. It says that when you log in. I've done a chkdsk. Didn't display any results. I've done all the basic tests, even ran chkdsk as a slave drive on another computer. Still with the same results. I also ran a virus scan, to make sure the msg wasn't some sort of malware.Spin-rite is a good program, it just take FOREVER to go through the hard drive and check/fix it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jblosser Posted March 23, 2010 Report Share Posted March 23, 2010 SMART telling you this?Possibly false positive - had it happen to me before. May or may not be bad.If you can see the data, copy/move it somewhere else, disable SMART in the BIOS, see what happens. Most drives have at least a 3 year warranty these days, so you may be able to get it replaced (unless it's older than that). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jporter12 Posted March 23, 2010 Report Share Posted March 23, 2010 Are you trying to save the drive, or just the data on the drive?Drives are cheap these days, go buy one, or if money is an isuse (it is with me!) I have a few lying around you could have for cheap to hold oyu over until you can get a new one. They're all in the 250-500 GB range. I bought a 2TB for $149 at Microcenter a month or so ago, and I've seen them even cheaper than that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DangBruhY Posted March 23, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 23, 2010 I tried duplicating the hard drive to another... It failed. I don't know what's going on with it, but it will be a PITA to find all the software for this computer. That's why I'm wanting to see if there actually is something wrong with it or figure out what the hell is going on. So far, none of the scans that I've done have told me that the hard drive is bad, but I keep getting those errors.BTW, this is a work computer, not my personal computer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CBR600rr Posted March 23, 2010 Report Share Posted March 23, 2010 I use Paragon disk manager 9.0 for disk repair and read/write errors...For imaging HDD try R-DriveAnd be very careful when running chkdsk on bad hdd (that's if you think its bad) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReconRat Posted March 23, 2010 Report Share Posted March 23, 2010 Go to the hard drive manufacturer's website, and download the diagnostic tool for the model of hard drive that you have. They all have one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jblosser Posted March 23, 2010 Report Share Posted March 23, 2010 1. Grab this: http://www.jblosser.com/ORstuff/acronisur.iso2. Burn the .iso to CD3. Connect another drive (thumb, usb-connected ide/sata, whatever) to computer with sketchy drive4. Boot from CD5. Create image of machineNow that you have a backup,6. Watch how 'failed' hard drive works perfectly for years and years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jporter12 Posted March 23, 2010 Report Share Posted March 23, 2010 (edited) Now that you have a backup,6. Watch how 'failed' hard drive works perfectly for years and years.Isn't that about the troof.... Edited March 23, 2010 by jporter12 Horrid typos.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jblosser Posted March 23, 2010 Report Share Posted March 23, 2010 Isn't that about the troof....If you have a good backup, the server doesn't die and stupid LUsers don't "accidentally", er, stupidly delete their files... 20+ years experience talkin' here.Avamar (EMC) d2d + deduplication FTMFW. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jporter12 Posted March 23, 2010 Report Share Posted March 23, 2010 If you have a good backup, the server doesn't die and stupid LUsers don't "accidentally", er, stupidly delete their files... 20+ years experience talkin' here.Avamar (EMC) d2d + deduplication FTMFW.At home I'm using a windows home server box. Automatic backups, easy file sharing, remote access... I haven't had much need for backups, recently, or in the past. I guess I'm just licky on that one. I did have a drive in a Striped RAID fail not long ago, but I kept all the data on another drive, and only program files and OS and such on the RAID. I didn't bother with restoring that backup, just fresh install of windows, point my docs, etc.. to the right folders on the second drive, all was sell again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DangBruhY Posted March 23, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 23, 2010 Welp... Failing right and left. The hard drive is on it's last leg. I guess I'm just gonna have to try to find all the software.Thanks for the help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alienpi Posted March 23, 2010 Report Share Posted March 23, 2010 Avamar (EMC) d2d + deduplication FTMFW.Looks awesome. What kind of cost is involved with Avamar? I've been looking into the Acronis products, because that's what I use at home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jblosser Posted March 23, 2010 Report Share Posted March 23, 2010 Looks awesome. What kind of cost is involved with Avamar? I've been looking into the Acronis products, because that's what I use at home.I've had good luck with Acronis, except their support sucked the one time I needed them. So, don't pay for support. YRMV, but I doubt it. I still use it, though.The Avamar solution me and my team implemented was around $700,000 - but that's for getting approximately 200 remote U.S. servers, 50-ish European and South America servers, and around 300 here in Columbus, backing that all up to disk, keeping 6 months' worth on tier 1 storage and another year on tier 2. Around 400 TB native, 12 TB deduplicated for point-in-time restores. Around 30% of the applications have a 2 hour RTO with 0% lost data. All of the Columbus servers are real-time replicated to a disaster recovery site located in another state. All of the remote servers backup to local disk, which is then carried over the WAN to Columbus. Most (90%) of the Columbus servers and 99% of the remote servers are virtual servers. The only servers I have running on bare metal are a couple that have fax cards in them, the 3 Exchange DAG servers, and a couple of others.Our e-mail system is 3 way redundant - 2 here, 1 at the DR site, each hold about 1/3 of the users, but all 3 are sized so that they can take 100% of the users if need be. 107 TB just for e-mail. 3,330 users. Crazy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alienpi Posted March 23, 2010 Report Share Posted March 23, 2010 I've had good luck with Acronis, except their support sucked the one time I needed them. So, don't pay for support. YRMV, but I doubt it. I still use it, though.The Avamar solution me and my team implemented was around $700,000 - but that's for getting approximately 200 remote U.S. servers, 50-ish European and South America servers, and around 300 here in Columbus, backing that all up to disk, keeping 6 months' worth on tier 1 storage and another year on tier 2. Around 400 TB native, 12 TB deduplicated for point-in-time restores. Around 30% of the applications have a 2 hour RTO with 0% lost data. All of the Columbus servers are real-time replicated to a disaster recovery site located in another state. All of the remote servers backup to local disk, which is then carried over the WAN to Columbus. Most (90%) of the Columbus servers and 99% of the remote servers are virtual servers. The only servers I have running on bare metal are a couple that have fax cards in them, the 3 Exchange DAG servers, and a couple of others.Our e-mail system is 3 way redundant - 2 here, 1 at the DR site, each hold about 1/3 of the users, but all 3 are sized so that they can take 100% of the users if need be. 107 TB just for e-mail. 3,330 users. Crazy.Thanks for the info. Looks like something I'm going to have to look into. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flounder Posted March 23, 2010 Report Share Posted March 23, 2010 (edited) I've had good luck with Acronis, except their support sucked the one time I needed them. So, don't pay for support. YRMV, but I doubt it. I still use it, though.The Avamar solution me and my team implemented was around $700,000 - but that's for getting approximately 200 remote U.S. servers, 50-ish European and South America servers, and around 300 here in Columbus, backing that all up to disk, keeping 6 months' worth on tier 1 storage and another year on tier 2. Around 400 TB native, 12 TB deduplicated for point-in-time restores. Around 30% of the applications have a 2 hour RTO with 0% lost data. All of the Columbus servers are real-time replicated to a disaster recovery site located in another state. All of the remote servers backup to local disk, which is then carried over the WAN to Columbus. Most (90%) of the Columbus servers and 99% of the remote servers are virtual servers. The only servers I have running on bare metal are a couple that have fax cards in them, the 3 Exchange DAG servers, and a couple of others.Our e-mail system is 3 way redundant - 2 here, 1 at the DR site, each hold about 1/3 of the users, but all 3 are sized so that they can take 100% of the users if need be. 107 TB just for e-mail. 3,330 users. Crazy.Just wondering but who do you work for with an infrastructure like that here in Columbus.Edit... Nevermind.. I figured it out. Im sure at one point we have probably met while I was onsite. Also, I was at your Austria location a few years back. Edit again.. Yep.. just checked some things confirmed it.... Small world. Edited March 23, 2010 by flounder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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