Hard Drive Fitness Test

[Kyocera]

I have a friend who is having some hard drive issues, will the Hitachi Hard Drive Fitness Test work for other brands of hard drives? If not does anyone know of a similar one for other brands. Thanks.

[GomJabbar]

I just ran Hitachi's Drive Fitness Test on a coworker's Compaq that had a Fujitsu drive, and the test itself ran fine and did show the drive had a problem, but could not elaborate. I could not use the other utilities available with Drive Fitness Test on the Fujitsu drive. I then ran Fujitsu's version of the drive test, and it also showed a problem. With Fujitsu's software I was able to low level format the drive, but the error remained. I am sure the error code meant something to Fujitsu, but it did not to me.

Hitachi Drive Fitness Test
Fujitsu Diagnostic Tool Ver. 6.3

[MadeInJapan]

Seagate's SeaTools works on some drives that are not their own. Do a search for this...think I saw it over at Computer Geeks. There is a downloadable, free image file you burn to CD and creates a bootable CD with this tool on it. Then you just boot up with this and it will check out your HDD. Check your HDD in generic mode. Good luck!

[Kyocera]

Thanks much!