BPoller Posted May 25, 2008 Share Posted May 25, 2008 (edited) Hi folks,i am not sure if my WD SATA HDD is ok anymore. Strange noises and several system crashes in the last time.Could be Mainboard or HDD.So i wanted to test the WD HDD, but their own Tool didnt recognize the drive.Any help? Is there an other WD Tool for SATA Drives or do u know a good general tool for HDDs to test which dont erase the data (more like SMART Analysis or so)?Thanks,Bjoern Edited May 25, 2008 by BPoller Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted May 25, 2008 Share Posted May 25, 2008 (edited) "strange noises" do not fit well with the "problem in motherboard" theory. Try this:http://hddguru.com/content/en/software/Victoria:http://hddguru.com/content/en/software/2005.10.03-Victoria/MHDD:http://hddguru.com/content/en/software/2005.10.02-MHDD/jaclaz Edited May 25, 2008 by jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe43wv Posted May 27, 2008 Share Posted May 27, 2008 Sounds to me like your hard drive is about to go down the drain. You only have limited time, get the info. you want off the drive immediately, and if it is still under warrenty call WD. The longer you wait, and the longer the drive sits there running the closer it will come to the point of no return, meaning no chance of file or document recovery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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