Eric Peterson wrote: > Hello, > > I'm sure we've all run scandisk and waited a day for it to return a > summary of bad blocks on a 60 GB hard drive. Ouch! > > I'm sure we've all used fsck as well and are quite happy when a 200 GB > disk takes only hours to check for errors on ext filesystem. > > Does a faster scanning utitlity exist for Windows partitions that can tell > me if a hard drive is beginning to fail? Is it possible to run this > utility from a linux boot disk or other boot disk? Have you tried your hard drive vendor's website (eg, Seagate, Maxtor, etc...)? Some have boot floppy utilities for this purpose. -- scot _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list