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<body><br>Hello Frank:<br><br>One solution I use to check any older drives, or for that matter, newer<br>drives is badblocks. Boot up knoppix to the command line<br>and type<br><br> badblocks -s -v -n <device><br><br>e.g. where device would be /dev/hda for the first ide hard drive<br><br>That would perform a NON-DESTRUCTIVE read-only test.<br><br>If you get any errors then you could safely assume that the drive data and drive is bad.<br>Another option is to look at the SMART data from the drive. Most newer drives will<br>have SMART on the drive.<br><br>You can check to see if the drive has SMART and is enabled by typing:<br> smartctl -I <device><br><br>e.g. smartctl -a /dev/hda<br><br>This dumps all information about a drive. You will see if both the drive has SMART and if SMART is enabled.<br>Moreover, if the logging feature was enabled on the drive then you will be able to dump the error report.<br><br>Hope this helps.<br><br>Regards,<br>Lou<br><br><br><br><hr id="stopSpelling">> Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 14:09:58 -0500<br>> From: fkumro@gmail.com<br>> To: nflug@nflug.org<br>> Subject: [nflug] HD Scan<br>> <br>> My friend has a laptop running windows (yuck) and is having issues<br>> with the hard drive. Is there a linux bootable cd that I can use to<br>> check the hard drive for issues? Also after we figure out the problem<br>> she is letting me put linux on it for her :)<br>> <br>> -- <br>> Frank<br>> Shenanigans!!<br>> I do the voodoo that I do do with sudo!<br>> http://www.syncoder.com<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> nflug mailing list<br>> nflug@nflug.org<br>> http://www.nflug.org/mailman/listinfo/nflug<br><br /><hr />Be one of the first to try <a href='http://ideas.live.com/programpage.aspx?versionId=5d21c51a-b161-4314-9b0e-4911fb2b2e6d' target='_new'>Windows Live Mail.</a></body>
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