Hitachi 3tb error checking

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halkx

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Hi

I would like to know if there is any tool to check 3tb disks from Hitachi like drive fitness tool(ie. Outside windows)

Michael
 

halkx

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drive fitness tool (DFT) is a utility from hitachi for disks up to 2tb to check the consistency of the disk, but it doesn't work with 3tb ones..
 

odditory

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Hi Michael, run an Error Scan in HDTune, that will check every sector. That's what I do with new Hitachi's as soon as I take them out of the box. No need to run windows disk management to initialize or partition the drive first, HDTune works at the disk level. If you see any bad sectors and its a brand new drive, I would exchange it.

www.HDTune.com
 
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halkx

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ah...thanks

so no equivalent of DFT for 3TB drives...I need to hook it up to a running windows comp to check it out...
 

john4200

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There are other alternatives. For example, you could boot from a USB drive with something like parted-magic (or any linux live distro) and run badblocks on the drive to do a complete write/read scan.