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Confederate · 07-10-2005, 10:12 AM

I have a hard that I thought had crashed, and I just felt like seeing if I could recover some of my old files off of it. so I hooked it up to my old win2k machine and it worked fine, so I ran file scavenger basically all day yesterday on the 2 partitions on it and I didn't have a single problem with the hard drive the entire time I was working with it. Which is making me wonder if it may not have been a hardware problem.

It' is a 120 Gb Samsung spinpoint ~1-2 years old
I had been using it in an XP machine when I thought it had crashed.
I'll try to answer any other questions that may help.

Basically what I am asking is how can I know if the drive is bad and how can I check if it is still good to use.

07-10-2005, 10:12 AM	#1 (permalink)
Confederate Death Leprechaun Location: College Station, TX	IS my hard drive bad? I have a hard that I thought had crashed, and I just felt like seeing if I could recover some of my old files off of it. so I hooked it up to my old win2k machine and it worked fine, so I ran file scavenger basically all day yesterday on the 2 partitions on it and I didn't have a single problem with the hard drive the entire time I was working with it. Which is making me wonder if it may not have been a hardware problem. It' is a 120 Gb Samsung spinpoint ~1-2 years old I had been using it in an XP machine when I thought it had crashed. I'll try to answer any other questions that may help. Basically what I am asking is how can I know if the drive is bad and how can I check if it is still good to use. Last edited by Confederate; 07-10-2005 at 10:21 AM..