Hi, i have a fujitsu SATA hard drive for the laptop. I want to check it for disk errors and such.. Fujitsu does not provide one on their website, is there a alternative way to check for drive errors..

There's one on Hiren's boot CD.

or on the ultimate cd a legal alternative.

There's one on Hiren's boot CD.

I'd try to *not* post about Hiren's boot CD as it's warez, and that's not well regarded here...

M$ provides "Chkdsk" for that purpose, in every install of Windows.

For a tech, there's always "Spinrite 6" from Steve Gibson (www.grc.com).

It's NOT free, but every tech should have a copy.

I got my first copy in the late 80's.

Cheers!

Andromeda43

Just for the record, here:

http://hddguru.com/content/en/software/

there is, besides other related utilities, MHDD a very goot FREEWARE program:

http://hddguru.com/content/en/software/2005.10.02-MHDD/

MHDD is the most popular freeware program for low-level HDD diagnostics.

MHDD supports these interfaces: IDE, Serial ATA, SCSI. Also there is a possibility to access an USB storage, there are drivers for emulation (USB->SCSI).

This software can make precise diagnostic of the mechanical part of a drive, view SMART attributes, perform Low-level format, bad sector repair, different tests and tens of other functions.

jaclaz