IBM/Lenovo/Hitachi Drive Fitness Test

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sktn77a · #1 Post by **sktn77a** » Sun Jul 08, 2007 6:11 pm

Hi All:

I have an 80Gb Hitachi laptop drive in a USB enclosure that appears to be corrupting files. The normal Windows drive software isn't picking up anything untoward but the files (jpeg pictures) have backwards bands across them when I copy to the hitachi. If I copy them to a CDRW, they're fine. Can I use the DFT on a USB drive?

#2 Post by **richk** » Sun Jul 08, 2007 6:29 pm

No. Not directly. You are going to need to take it out of its housing and mount it somewhere in a machine.

#3 Post by **Harryc** » Sun Jul 08, 2007 7:49 pm

You could easily do it with one of these

http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=45495

sktn77a · #4 Post by **sktn77a** » Sun Jul 08, 2007 9:24 pm

Yep, I already have one of those. Just one problem, though - I boot to the DFT with the CD-ROM but cannot then hot-swap the HDD adapter under DOS (or whatever environment DFT runs under).

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#5 Post by **richk** » Sun Jul 08, 2007 9:29 pm

Unfortunately, you need more pieces. You could run DFT from A bootable USB device (floppy or CD). I do this all the time, so I have a desktrop machine (old clunker) that I use only for testing drives. The case is always open and there is an IDE cable with a 2 1/2 - 3 1/2 inch adapter hanging out.

#6 Post by **Harryc** » Sun Jul 08, 2007 9:34 pm

richk wrote: You could run DFT from A bootable USB device (floppy or CD).

Yup, I bought one (USB Floppy) for occasions just like this one.

sugo · #7 Post by **sugo** » Sun Jul 08, 2007 10:59 pm

One can just swap out the main drive and boot DFT from CD. It's only 5 screws.

sktn77a · #8 Post by **sktn77a** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 7:05 am

Actually, I guess I could do that as the drive doesn't need have the OS, etc on it.

jch · #9 Post by **jch** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 3:12 pm

I'm having HDD problems too.

Where can I get the DFT (Drive Fitness Test) software from??

.../j

#10 Post by **rkawakami** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 3:14 pm

Google is your friend: "hitachi drive fitness test software download" yields this as the first hit:

http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/download.htm

jch · #11 Post by **jch** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 3:31 pm

Woops. Here I was thinking that it a bundled IBM/Lenovo package that was missing from my machine.

Thanks.

.../j

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